The sun will always shine on the old liberty tree It's a tall indestrong And it's a tall indestrong And yes we are the sons, the sons of the team, early tree It's a tall... ...in through the mist with a flintlock in it His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed He took off his three cornered hat And speaking low to me he said We fought a revolution to secure our liberty We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun Permits to start a business or to build a place for one On land that you believe you own you pay a yearly rent Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame number you traded in your name You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm And keep our country deep in debt put men of God in jail harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths. They've sworn and your daughters visit doctors So their children will be born Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free and home of the poor? Listen, but do you recall famous reindeer the red-nosed reindeer at a very shiny low if you ever saw it You would even say it though of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him a they never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer game one part Christmas Eve Santa came to say, off with your note tonight Then how the reindeer loved him, red-nosed reindeer You'll go down in history and even say it Used to laugh and call him, then how's reindeer Ladies and gentlemen, this is the First hour of the afternoon intelligence report, I'm R. K. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines at occupied territories, west, southeast, north, and... Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org. And we are on satellite, Seattle, our friends out there in the merchant marine and a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. It is a beautiful 21st of December. It is weapons Wednesday. It is the 14th year of open, obvious and pissing in your face, Fabian socialist. and the Soviet Socialist occupation of America with a K 2022. Old Earth calendar, 2022 battle for the Republic, the dance of sorts. Let the dance continue. A lot of work to do. I'm trying to get it all done. In fact, running right up until the last minute here. However, we also have planet craft food communications issues and it seems to be standard now. So. Here we are closer to the holidays with the fake election in the tail lights quite a ways now the last month. And the idiot sticks across the board are just jumbled all over the place. But beware, that's not an accident. Confusion, the scam of confusion amongst the political hacks is the norm, not the exception. In reality, there is a fixed agenda. It is the sub routine that baseline of activity. Anything else is pickle, smoke and mirrors. The old Wizard of Oz routine. Oh, and the very powerful poof queer $3, the $3 bill hyper globalist. And that's how they do it. So anyway, we do have a few things to pay attention to. Obviously, the Russians are getting ready for their offensive in the headed to the west and or well, depending on which direction Belarus probably swinging south as we know and other countries probably pitching in. They're not really wanting to talk about yet. So not from our not not from the Ukrainian pedophile side. but from the other side, you know, the side with the Christians. The pedophile side is run by the Jewish pedophile, Mafia. Well, they're worthless. Zalinski may have run either A to his mansion here in the US or one of his other mansions that he's acquired amazingly enough since we started dumping money. hand over fist on the Ukraine. So I can only assume he's probably got one for every season and depending upon which titty bars are open and what part of the world for the globalist ring knockers where they can buy nine year olds all day right over the counter. You know that's what he's really looking forward to. I mean, after all, he's kosher mafia and it's what they do. It's what they are. So anyway, the pedophile ring apparently on Ask the AO, at least it's claimed now. We'll see what happens because on the other hand, I had to mention this. You do realize that most of what they've been doing is pretty much been very sophisticated green screen slash now what blue screen, whatever. All the scenes in the background were sterile. Go back and look at some of the junk they've done. It's sterile. There are no life forms to cross paths with, and it's always the same BS. from whatever wag the dog studio they were operating at before, maybe still not in Ukraine, I think. But now officially it's like unask the AO and leave all of the people behind you screwed, which is what the pedo sniffer meat puppet Jewish mafia is always good for, leading from the rear and running like hell when things get serious. Unask the AO, as we used to say. So. It's going to be interesting, of course, the proposition for nuclear exchange has been a constant thing now for months. I am also fascinated by this. Isn't it interesting that all of the kosher run left his mouthpieces? who won the kosher mafia, wanted to bang the gong that you needed to be terrified of conservatives, because they were going to start World War III. First of all, I would point out, it's always been Demikin leftists or the neocon Demikin leftists, the fake right neocons, that's not even in Little Road, they're just the other part of the Communist Party running the operations globally. And it's interesting, they're the ones that have started the wars. Demikin, demikin, demikin, demikin, oh, Neocon, another one for the Neocons, and then a demikin. And now we got another demikin. So, well, it's a big war, which remember the two big wars we had before that we should have stayed out of. Well, the demikins are the ones who got us into both of them, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Rosenfeld. Okay, so what's the surprise that Obama isn't gonna get us into war? The Pedosin for Meat puppet will sign a scribble on the paper, but it's Obama that wants to get a bunch of you killed. So let's just be ready for that. And remember who's on the feces list. Why Mr Obama is on the feces list. Very bad, wretched, evil, wicked, narcissistic pedophile. Okay, just horrid, horrid. But the fact of the matter is that the Russians, of course, aren't going to, they're not going to take any chances. So it's going to be pretty apparent that as they mobilize for whatever they're going to do tactically, they are definitely still going to fully activate and have already partially, if not fully activated their nuclear arm and their satellite arm and their anti-satellite arm. And there are other bag of tricks that they have, just like we have a bunch of different bag of tricks on our side we're not supposed to be talking about. Okay. Both sides are going to play every card if they escalate to this point. If they escalate to nuclear, everything, use it or lose it is what it comes down to. Of course, a lot of it will just be lost. One of the things I thought was interesting with regard to the Ukrainian frontier situation is the Patriot missile deployment. Now, as many people have pointed out, sending a battery of Patriot missiles, apparently just to use up our stale potato chips. You know, you got old stuff laying around. It doesn't always work perfectly, but it will work. So they're shipping a lot of stuff out just to make room in the warehouse. Oh, wait a minute, but they're not filling the warehouse up with something else. So we got lots of dust bunnies here. And, uh, well, I'm sure there's some stuff they can still pull out of the wine, the wine cellars here and there of the arsenal. There's a lot of stuff tucked away. Contrary to what they're talking about. The big thing here is in small arms. You might recall something because everybody's saying, well, we don't even have enough small arms. Okay, back up. You might remember about three months ago, going on four, that there were a bunch of people talking about and announcing that the local military arsenals that were munitions producers were cranking up. They weren't making any big show of it. They were just manning up. turning on the lights, winding up the machinery, and they were doing something. So in reality, they probably already, and again, you're not supposed to know this, we're not supposed to figure this out, even though I guarantee the Russians don't long before we do. You simply watch for, you know, sites to heat up. Look for the thermal plume, everybody always talks about that. Well, a lot of these smaller munitions, but traditionally US military munitions facilities are now active. They've called in personnel who were retired. They've brought in other personnel as they could desperately find what little skilled trade they could find or semi skilled trade or people with experience in the industry. They have slipped sideways and gone into and dip from the well of the private American ammunition production facilities. Not to have them make But they try and entice manpower away to go to the arsenals. A lot of the people are complaining about that that own the companies who by the way should have contracts with the US government because they're 100% American component, 100% American made to US military specs. So why would you need to go somewhere else? Why would you have to go overseas for instance? Why are you giving contracts to FN? Well, we got 40, 50 different American ammunition producers that have independent labels that could easily contract out and given priority could expand on production immediately. So this is a globalist thing. So they can dump more money into the, you know, the oil boy, the small hat big schnoz wearers. And those characters in turn are laughing their ass off because it's hurting American production that is not going into military use and therefore US tax dollars are staying with American quote unquote taxpayers. Though we're basically just getting screwed in general when they take money from us anyway. And we never see it ever returned. We know that. This is the best example. And again, One of the interesting things about this is that as several people have pointed out the ones who are knowing people in the industry that are in the US military plants is that they're not cranking out the new round necessarily. Remember we were supposed to go to that new 6.8, which that kind of told you, depending on how serious it gets, almost as quickly as the idea of that really jumping in, it's going to fade like this, you know, the 7.35 Carcano. It's just not necessarily useful. Now, on the other hand, maybe they'll keep the program alive because they can do it. At the end of World War II, we had 50 and 60 caliber guns in service. You do know that, right? How many of you remember the 60 caliber MG's that we had post World War II? They came out at the end of the war, stayed in through to about 1955 through 57, and then disappeared. No, I'm not talking the M60 machine gun. We're talking 60 caliber, not just 5-0, but 60 caliber MG. Yeah, so it's not like it hasn't happened before. Of course it was technically in semi peacetime. Let's not forget that. I mean, we were kind of not in a war called Korea where a lot of us got killed, our people, but It wasn't really a war they would claim. Instead, it was just kind of a peacekeeping engagement. There's a bunch of police officers standing out in the middle of the field, policing other people who needed to be policed, who had guns and everybody was shooting at each other. Kind of like being in Chicago and being a cop, I guess, right? So anyway, well, maybe not, because the cops don't interfere with it, they can help, but they let the gangs do what they want. But anyway, The interesting thing is that it's the basic calibers This is one of the reasons as I've said you need a 7.62 by 51 NATO rifle It's weapons Wednesday, and I would recommend that at this point in time I there are some beautiful firearms out there and this is America So if you got money you spend it wherever you want don't look you don't have to me to tell you what to do But if you're a shooter and you are limited and you don't have much in the way of resource Okay Then I highly recommend that if you're going to go to a 308 battle rifle, go to an air air 10. Find the most copacetic for parts, you know, most commonly available and interchangeable. A 20 inch barrel, not a 16. Why am I buying a bigger caliber and getting a shorter barrel? I want greater range. I want more energy. I don't care what they say. Yes, those two and four inches. If you got an 18 inch, hey, at least that's better than. 16, but it's an MBR main battle rifle. Treat it as an MBR. I'm not trying to cut it down, shorten it and be happy at close range with my enemy. I want the extra 200 yards of more effective firepower. Okay, or three or four. Better you are with that weapon the farther out the bad guys stay dead. Okay, so this is why again an MBR, why we see the AR-10 right now. As close as we are to the probability of conflict, closer than we've been quite some time, externally and internally. More on that in a minute, by the way, it's kind of funny. I'll bring something up that just happened today. Real quick, what's fascinating about this is that your cross training time is minimized with the AR-10. If you have an AR-15, of most you do, that's typically what you're walking up to the table with. Well, guess what? All you gotta do is understand it's just an AR-15 on steroids. Everything is where it's supposed to be. There's no forgetting where something is. And that's a big plus. If you're going to acquire an MBR, it's minimal cross training time to combat. And no having to cross think about something. You can develop that and you should own more weapons. Don't think I'm saying just buy these two guns. Oh, no way in hell buy all the guns you can. Create your own collection. A portfolio of exciting weapons of war to protect your liberty, okay? But at this point in time, it's a short curve this way. You're not gonna have to relearn, rethink anything. You grab an AR-15, you grab an AR-10. The only difference is what size is the magazine? And needless to say, you got more thud going down range with the 7.62x51 NATO, okay? For everybody farther, do we have a caller? Want to make sure we don't leave anybody out do we have a caller Mark? Go ahead. What do you got? Hey, I just wanted to touch on this ammo situation. So I work for a ammo manufacturer and 70% of our business is with the US military and we were just informed that We're going to double our capacity for the US contract in the 23 year. So that's good. That's actually good for you. Go ahead. Yeah, it is good for us, but there's no new ammo. It's the same stuff. We're not ramping up for their new caliber. is rumored to be the new fangled thing, but I just wanted to give my two cents on that. Well, excellent. And again, so 556 and 762 NATO, nine millimeter per vellum. Okay, well, I'm getting go. That's okay. All the usual suspects and just better stuff, different materials, you know, stuff I can't talk about, but known caliber. So, but doubling our production is huge. You know, our tax dollars at work, I guess. Yep. Well, again, that's one of the things that they're doing to a couple of the people. They've had the government coming in and trying to entice and slide sideways guys like you for the other plants. Like I think now here's what's interesting. I don't know if it's back in full production, but Ravina Arsenal even is being looked at. I don't know what's left of Ravina Arsenal. That's up towards Fort Okemon, Camp Perry, it's up in the Camp Perry area. And the last thing that I know Ravina Arsenal was doing was, I think, our tank rounds. But that was just part of their production. They did everything. They used to do everything. But Ravina specialized also in R&D research and development. So I've always wanted to steal the name. It just rolls off the tongue, right? I'll just say this. We deal only in small arms. So we don't do any tank round. We don't do any of the big caliber stuff like that. Right. Well, and again, that makes sense. Now, what about, well, after that we don't do any of the particulars because you're working for those guys. Anything on the horizon, though? Any possibility of any of that? Because usually they do production overruns. Is it going to be anything slid sideways with any kind of overrun option? No, negative. We do high-end stuff for hunters and stuff like that that's all commercially available, but no. We're at full capacity and we just ended, we had our Christmas party and everything and they said that going into the new year, 70% of our production goes to the military now. And they said we're going to double that in next year. So I, you know, that's all the information I can give, but I think we can all read between the lines. Exactly. Well, one way or another conflict is in motion. Like I said, either A internally or B externally, and I think it'll be both because why would you leave the for the globalist? Why would you leave the southern border wide open? Well, it's real simple. You're again, like I've said many times, trying to make an excuse for expanding on the police state. And even as a They either have to go after the guns or sit on their hands for 24 months and in theory, unless they just do an open fake election again, which by the way, we've already had two, where they're really blatant. Then they if they have to acquiesce to maybe kind of representing the population, then they can lose power. Well, at least lose, you know, overt power from the one side. They can still do it with backstabbing through the characters that they put in from the other side. Which they do But this is their window This is and the only way to do it is extreme crisis now Kind of like the corona beer virus scam which hurt them more than it did us as far as I'm concerned so Anything in the way of increased production identifies their confidence or their high confidence in a threat environment a threat issue So appreciate that. Thank you And we are, guys, right at the bottom. And that means Weapons Wednesday, our bottom of the hour break. And we know what we do on Wednesday, don't we? Edward does. Because this is my rifle. And I know he's working on it. Put mind to madness and films in our valleys There is danger, and there's danger in our hills Oh, here you're not the singing of the view, the wild and free But soon you'll know the rifle from the tree Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle In our hands, the proof, no dry poem You may ride a good late speed, you may know a stern a master You forward march with speed, but you'll learn to back much faster When you meet our mountain boys And the leader jot a star Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no strife And we are back! And for everybody out there, again, we appreciate all the support we're getting for the end of the year billing. And that's typical, you guys. So always step up to the plate on this. So again, just a reminder, the next drawing for the end of the year billing is going to be on the 30th, 3-0 of December, 30th of December. You got one or two still to go out. So everybody just keep an eye on your mailboxes. And again, it's going to be mixed up a little bit. The other stuff that we have that's in the boxes to be safe. Running down the barrel though, I want to get everything out this year that we have in the gift boxes and use it. Doesn't know any good, but sitting here, we need it out where you guys have it in hand. So if need be, you can utilize the tools and technology that we send. If you would like to get involved with the drawing, which is a gift thing, if you donate, you get for every dollar you put into the donation, you get your name put into the big bucket, mixed all up, and Ed pulls so many names out progressively through the night. We do a little session, and then what we do is if your name is drawn, it's fun. We just send a gift out to you. It's a random thing, but hopefully it makes it a little interesting. So I know a lot of our friends don't want to be in the drawing. They just send the donations. We appreciate that. 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We just do it at the end of the year and have some fun during the holiday in the process. Hopefully everything we've sent out is useful. I think it is. and more to come. Just that simple. Also remember, if you got any optics that have any kind of illumination or whatever, don't turn it on when you're looking at it. Don't point it at anybody else. These things are powerful. I cannot emphasize that enough. Read the instructions. Read the instructions because this is really cool technology. and but it's it's powerful. Okay. Also again remember you might want to pick up spare batteries for any of the other pieces of equipment comes with what you need but you might want to grab more right away and make a little kit depending on what you got there and what is attached to you. So useful in that respect. And by the way remember short pointy objects well don't play with them. You know better than that. Oh, you'll poke your eye out the Christmas story. Remember? It's not a red rider BB gun though. I will say that you're not gonna get a red rider BB gun. I promise. So anyway, um, other things going on. Oh, as a matter of fact, it's amazing. How did I do that? Fascinating things happening here. Forgive me. I just realized looking at something. And again, being weapons Wednesday, uh, ammunition. Centerfire systems had some pretty good deals this week also again You want to look around like CD and sports? Dot-com and don't forget aim surplus aim surplus still has some of the better prices even with all of the options out there But mostly most the most important thing is a pretty reasonable price and a lot of the exotic stuff that most of you are used to the idea that you're just going to pay unobtainium prices for. Now, I don't know again what's going on with the PPU. And we don't know how long it's going to last before PPU is cut out because the Serbs, which is where PPU, preview partisan, comes from, they're working, they've decided to side with the Russians on what's going on with the Ukraine, but also because they want to keep their houses heated this year. So they've agreed to purchase whatever they want from Russia and they don't care what the EU thinks. Plus they'll say, well, the problem is going on with Kosovo, which is expected because that will never be settled until, you know, again, the Serbs get it back where it belongs. It's their property, not the people who decide to slide in and take it over, much like what they'd like to do with the rest of Europe here. That wet dream of invasion for the Muslim hordes. Okay. That's one of the things that was going on and by the way, but it wasn't the Muslims that did that it was the Israelis Osama bin Laden was you well in mom's Jewish so he's Jewish, but no he's an Arab prince really Who was who was financing Osama bin Laden going into Kosovo back years ago, huh? And who was he what the Mossad? He was working with the Mossad Wow, what a surprise I would never have thought that, oh yeah, well we already told you about that. And that's the epic problem with Kosovo in general as far as stealing it from the Serbs because it's where all the really cool minerals are that the Jewish mafia, the kosher mafia, the international bankers want to rip off. So that's why they went in there. And of course, don't forget, Kofor and the UN all there to be the knuckle-dragging thugs to help make sure that the kosher mafia and the international bankers could steal the stuff that's in Kosovo. How dare you think they don't deserve that? Which is exactly what the whole scam was about, and is about still. So we haven't seen the last of that. Things kick off in World War III, the adventure continues. All these little parts of the planet are still in technical conflict and will escalate very, very quickly. And that means that all of these specialized industries and specialized technologies will become locally isolated at the very least simply because 100% production will be needed for local inventory and use. They're not going to ship it out if they need it, you know in the United in Serbia They're not going to ship it to the United States or anywhere else for that matter And I would point out that one of the things that did happen the US government You know, we had just one of our friends call in who's working with one of the arms dealers arms manufacturers ammunition manufacturers here Let's get it right not arms but remember PPU was you know producing ammunition for the US government to use in Iraq. Of course, we also were using just about anybody's ammunition in Iraq. However, they were producing brand new contract 762 by 51 NATO and to a certain degree 556 NATO for US operations in Iraq to go on the roof of those strikers. Now, of course, they did also use British. We use anybody. That's one thing I will say. Anybody in America, almost. Anybody but American while we were in Iraq and while we were in Afghanistan. So, they didn't crank up more here. They promoted more production in third-party countries. And Serbia was one of them. Even though, of course, Serbia has had a bit of a problem with all the things we've been doing to them for quite some time. So, anyway. AIM surplus, PPU, and the reason I bring that up is they did have some 375 Holland in Holland. As of today, I don't know, it's not gonna last long, because it's the cheapest big bore ammo in the country. You go to AIM surplus, the PPU ammunition, 300 wind mag, 7 millimeter Remington mag, 375 Holland in Holland, it's the cheapest available. Not gonna be the fanciest more sophisticated round. It's gonna be a basic podiac But the advantage is building up brass and this is something that all of you need to be doing if you have a unique big bore rifle Guys, we want you to keep it running. We'll help you to keep it running if we find bullets and powder and primer We will help you to fill that brass But most important is we need more brass. All of you do. So if you've got a unique big bore belted Magnum 338 win, what else did they have that was over there? 416 Rigby. They did have some of that. It does come and go. But they do have, and that's a really oddball brown, but it's one of those traditional Cape bull elephant, you know, Cape bull. wildebeest.com and slash read that cow. And also with elephant. It's a very popular through the noggin caliber used to be because it will get through all that bone to get to the gray matter knocked around, knocked the animal down quick. You hope. But anyway, just a consideration again, aim surplus.com always mentioned because they're pretty good for price. Last but not least on that, somebody asked me in a little email about the 40 cal Norma. I don't know. I don't know who's making it. I've said a couple of times. I know who Norma is and Norma has been around for a very long time and Norma has always been known for good quality ammunition, especially it was kind of like the Remington of Europe. Okay. maybe a little higher standards more like you know, maybe I don't know maybe a little under weather be a little above Remington a little below Weatherby. Okay, and they did build a lot of custom calibers and stuff that people nobody else would would build after it was you know, not as popular. Probably simply because they obviously had the dies. One of the things that Norma does is 30 caliber Luger. and they do produce a very fine uniform factory production ammunition in all categories. So that .40 caliber Norma that's out there, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot it. Now, I will say what I said before about this. There's a lot of stuff that's cropped up recently that it's very obvious that they're taking advantage of somebody who's really taken the market for subcontracting, and that's Turkey. Now, I don't know what it is. You can usually tell when you look. I do know what it is, but let me explain it this way. When you look at certain ammunition during a window of time, you can usually kind of feel by the configuration and the type of brass, you have to see it. You know, it's kind of like wine tasting. But what you're looking at is bullet, you know, taper of the bullet. How was the crown of the bullet built? Angles and tapers on everything tell it all, to be quite honest. Now with the brass, there's not a whole lot really special they can do, but there is variance in quality of finish in terms of when trimming the brass and even how crisp the dies are with regard to the edge of the extractor rim. These are all things you look at. And also quality with regard to the base of the case because primer pocket, uniform stamping on the case, that's what you're looking for. Are they running the press, are they running equipment too fast? Are they cutting corners? Or do they just not have experience? That's something that everybody is always looking for. And the Turks have gone with a number of new projectiles that really kind of benchmark their activity. So if you see some of this stuff, you know, do a come, you know, if you're, if you're serious, if you're a shooter and you're listening, I'm listening to me right now, do what we used to do. Pull a couple of the bullets, you know, forgive me, pull a couple of the loaded cases, pull the bullet, drop the powder, pop the primer and do an autopsy of the round. What kind of powder is being used? You know, they may give you a basic information on standard muzzle velocity based on the center of weapons available that the round might be used in. But identifying the powder is part of the process of understanding storage and quality and performance. Okay. And one of the other things we used to do is needless to say do five, six, seven, 10 cases where we carefully dump the powder charge and electronically weigh it or well scale it. Now we used to use weights and measures of different types, but now it's electronic and you can go down to the third point, decimal point. The interesting thing about this is again what you're looking for is consistency with regard to powder charge. Military production is pretty generous, pretty liberal with foreign countries with regard to consistency. and where this becomes apparent is when you are chronographic rounds that are coming out of the box one after another from what was supposedly the same lot. You'll notice there's a lot of videos you can watch out there where they've chronographed the rounds just to see what is the consistency of the ammunition. But part of that is also checking the spec on the powder charge itself, and it's nice to know that, well, if there's a tight tight tolerance and tight spec and they're keeping it, which they should by the way, that consistency determines how this stuff is going to print on target, how it's going to engage and neutralize the target. Mostly because if you point these sites and you keep everything breathing and squeezing proper, then it's all weird. At what point is the bullet pushed down range by how much energy that can make it up or down the clock, left or right? And so the big thing here again is making sure that we spec it out, check the bullets. Also another thing I would recommend if you want to be really serious to it, a valuative report is actually weigh the bullets. Mark, it should be like 210 grain or 185 grain or 165. Yes, that's true. But remember, this is what we've talked about for many years. If you want to really tighten up your groups. You weigh your bullets out and separate them by weight. What? Yeah, you've got a thousand count or a two thousand count. This is very tedious, isn't it? This is real tedious, Mark. Yes, yes it is. What you do is you set up a series of trays. Wash your hands. Break out the inspection gloves. Take a bullet. Put it on the scale. What does it register? Okay, it's 55 grains, but it's 55 point whatever, or it's 54 point whatever. What you do is you create a series of trays, boxes, whatever you want to do and mark that first round. Okay, 55.1. Okay, there we go. That goes right there. Now you weigh another one. Oh, wait a minute. That's like, it's a half a grain heavier than it should be. A quarter of a grain heavier. Yes, it is. Not going to line up with that last bullet though, so we're going to have to make a new box. Now what's going to happen is eventually you're going to be sliding up and down the scale a little bit They still have to be relatively consistent. Obviously. I mean after all we're trying to hit the general target But what we're doing by subdividing the bullets by weight is the next batch of the next thing that you load Your bullets are going to be consistent. You're going to go slow and tedious with your powder charge You're going to be very careful about how you seek the primers And what you're going to build is a much more accurate round. Once it's done, once it's complete. Now, again, doesn't mean I'm going to throw those other bullets away. What I'm going to do is actually mark on the box, what's the bullet? What is the, what bullet am I using? What weight? Precision weight. What is its consistent weight from bullet to bullet? It'll all be within that scale range. In other words, whatever you determine, you know, when you sort these things, when you sort the bullets out, however many different bullet catches or, you know, covey holes or whatever you want to use, you know what, dollar store, Betty Crocker boxes, Betty Crocker plastic tubs are just fine. In fact, they're perfect, to be quite honest, because they have a seal that break them, you lock them in, lock them out from the air outside, reduce moisture exposure, etc. But you can also mark on the lid with a really nice sharpie or you can do it on a piece of paper with a schedule so you can keep reusing the same thing and just in one line to note what the bullet is. Now in doing this with pistol, rifle, no matter what you do, you're going to create a more consistent point of impact over and over and over again. So this is a consideration. Again, first we're looking at one of these guys producing 40 caliber made by Norma. It's FMJ. Nickel case, by the way, a couple of them that the Norma is making are actually nickel case rounds. That by itself is a selling feature for me. Some of the Turkish ammunition is nickel case, although it might be steel. The nickel is a big double plus good thing for carrying. You know, we haven't talked about that much. A lot of people don't really, you know, care or they supposedly don't care. You know, the most interesting thing I've never seen happen though, but I know it would be wicked. Lom and ammo, the by alloy metal cases. Have you ever seen them when they get exposed to water, how they react? They are a fully biodegradable case. They will, they will absolutely turn to powder. Now that's interesting because if I'm carrying a load of lamen in a armpit shoulder holster in a 357 Magnum or a 38, I wonder how long that lasts before my armpit juice kind of works like a tropical rainforest on those rounds. I know it's bad enough with brass because we've talked about this and we've always joked because every one of us has had this happen. Uncle Mark, even myself, everybody learns. carrying a Smith Model 10 38 special. Nice little bull, you know, it was a bull barrel, flat combat sites, typical for the production models of the 70s. Okay. And I had a Taurus too, really nice Taurus when I was distributor when Taurus first came in. And actually it was one of the first distributors for Taurus in the United States. And in both cases, these guns were, of course, carried in the, you know, around the shop constantly. And summer, winter, whatever. So every one of us has done the same thing. You have brass cases in the cylinder. You're carrying it a lot. You think, wow, it's a revolver. What the hell? What can happen to it? Just leave it, like everything. Just leave the ammo in. And then one day somebody goes, well, you know, Mark, you know, I want to check off the, what are you carrying? Oh, that's a Model 10. It's one of the custom builds. Oh wow, let me see it. And so you decide you're going to show how safe you are and you break the cylinder and you start to push on that. Oh, wait a minute. It's like it's sticking. Wow, wait a minute. This is really embarrassing as the brass comes out, it's being pushed out. It's got green around. Green. Yes, green. And again, what happened is moisture. in a tight, you know, dark place. Not that dark made much difference. But the moisture stuck around the weapon, it works its way. Water follows the path of least resistance. Moisture buildup and brass oxidation because the brass reacts to the moisture. Oh, don't forget there's some body salts in there. And body oils too, I'm sure. So anyway, yeah, I pulled that out, looked at the gun. My dad kind of laughed because he knew what happened. He understood because they're all longer than I have. And the other guy that was at the counter there was like, hmm, well, it looks like that needs to be fixed. So I guess so. So again, this is why nickel casing, nickel cases are really a great way to reduce one element of what can be an issue, especially if you're going to be in the field nonstop. I'm going to war. I'm being out in this weather. You think this weather is going to be like now it doesn't mean I'm not going to carry brass cases, but if I carry nickel plate, nickel plated and carry it for personal defense and I'm going to carry it in the field for personal defense with the handgun I carry. That's not a bad idea. I really should be doing that. You should too. So you might want to consider investing in a little bit of that. Look around and again, aim surplus. If you look the Turkish 9 millimeters actually relatively inexpensive. And it's interesting the combination with regard to the jacket and also the bullets. You know, the case and the bullets. You might want to look at that. Anyway, solutions, not just complaining about the problems, but also reminding you that if you got one in the tube or if you've got one in the whole clutch in the cylinder, drop the rounds, clean out the cylinder, check and inspect. Put everything back together, wipe your rounds down. This is something I'm very religious about is, have yourself a brass rag just for doing the brass, not for wiping your nose, not for cleaning your eyes, not for fixing the glasses. On your kit, you want to make sure you got a brass rag just for that purpose. And you don't want it oiled because oil kills. Okay, when it comes to, again, it will follow the path of least resistance, will permeate through key points, which is the primer pocket, and also the cantilever for the bullet, where the bullet makes contact with the case. It will work its way through. That's what penetrating oil is good for. We don't want that near our powders. We don't want it near our primers because we'll deactivate, fulminate or deactivate whatever propellant you have. You don't want that. So again, your prior puffer planing prevents piss poor performance there. But anyway, again, take a look at 40 cal Norma. To me, looks like it's a pretty good deal. It's actually a little less than the average price per box. And it's got a major factory name on it. It's been a major producer. It's actually pretty reliable. Anyway, we're at the top here. For everybody out there, wherever you're shopping, yeah, I'd feel good for you. The big thing is buy more ammo, buy more mags, and guns that are for flying. It's a talk. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said. We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free. and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. 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Central. Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org. And we're on satellite. And we'd like to say hi to all of our friends out there in the Merchant Marine, boarding facilities, anchorages, and of course, inland. And a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. We want to say hi to our friends in Slovakia. I don't know what the hell happened to Slovakia by the way. This is really kind of weird. There's been a bunch of stuff in the news the last couple of days. The Czech Republic, you hear about it all the time. Where did Slovakia go? Seriously, I'm not joking. Anyway, it is... Weapons Wednesday. Wow. It is the 21st of December. It is the 14th year of open and in your face, baby in the socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2022 old earth calendar, 2022 battle for the Republic, the dance of sorts. Let the dance continue and it will. We're going to make sure that happens anyway. Interestingly enough on that note, I'm serious. You know, it's like It used to be Czechoslovakia. It was a made-up country, welded together when the kosher mafia, the international bankers betrayed Germany. Well, actually, one batch did. And they divided up Germany and created West Germany, the central occupied zone on a 45 degree angle, and Eastern Germany. And they carved off the Czechs and the Slovaks. let them become a country to themselves. Which by the way they were kind of always this industrial center which is why they did it so they could basically profit from operations. So the Czechs became a big, the Czechoslovakians became a big major industrial competitor with Poland and with Germany. And in both cases, if one was making a weapon system, typically the others were to compete. But the checks were so adept and unique that they came up with arms that nobody else possessed. But for whatever reason, their arms industry was, they built intricate firearms. overly intricate firearms. Phenomenal weapons, they just were unaffordable for most countries, especially in the post-World War I period with the depressions that popped in all over the planet, virtually swept the country, forgive me, swept Europe and swept the United States. But as far as quality goes, oh, the Czech's phenomenal manufacturing. Even during the Cold War, there's Czech technology, just like Polish, that wandered across the iron curtain and ended up over here on this side of the water. And it turned out to be, well, it was big, heavy, girthy, crude, and reliable. In a lot of areas, they had their niche and they did really well, but they also did very well, the Czechs did with Czechoslovakians, with fine and precision technology. Well, after the Cold War and everything fell, first they were kind of, again, a split. And from that point forward, on occasion you do hear very specific comments about the Czech Republic, but not so much about the Slovakians. And I know they're still alive because we've got listeners there. So I want to say hi, I'm sending you a wave and also asking you, please clarify for us what's been going on. I'm sure that they're all worried about what's going on to the east of the Ukrainian situation, the escalation of war, etc, etc. And by the way, I will say this, both the Czech Republic and Poland have been tied in to each of the actions. The Georgian fiasco that took place several years ago, where they tried to start World War III then with the Russians and they were going to try and blame the Russians for what the Georgian president and the kosher mafia bankers who were pulling his wanker that were actually in charge of his government. He wasn't And it didn't work but the checks lost a phenomenal amount of equipment along with Poland and the United States in the action that nobody wants to talk about which up to an included American Polish and Czech POWs along with mercenaries and Israelis captured by the Russians And then without any fanfare or news coverage, they were slid back over the border, well, somewhere, and the rest were kind of kept. After all, they tried to start a major fiasco with Russia, and Russia didn't take too kindly to that. So now we have a replay with the Ukraine, with even greater consequences, obviously, in your face. And of course, greater expense to us, because this time around, the ring knockers, the neocons, the globalists, the Jewish mob, Oh, they all decided that you all just need to take all your, you know, whatever wealth you have and dump it over there so they can steal it under the table sideways, just like they were doing in Afghanistan, but much more conveniently because they had a better kosher mafia government to get things done and to steal more, which they have. So anyway, we'll see how that plays out. Interestingly enough, everybody's kind of getting tired of the freebie stuff. And I will point out something. You know, this is something interesting, what happens Wednesday. But also, again, there's a lot of propaganda PS videos that they do out there, guys. Now, it doesn't mean that the Russians don't have a full range of BMPs, but most of the Russian BMP frontline equipment or tack equipment that's best of the bunch is, Arnold, for instance, it's like the difference between a basic Bradley model and a Bradley 2 or Bradley, you know, the M3 scout, depending on what you're doing with them. But upgrades and changes have taken place over the years that are quite significant. And the original McVie is very different from what you now call the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which by the way is also long in the tooth. It's been around for a while. Okay. Interestingly enough, they're watching a video. The BMP1. using a smooth bore, a low pressure high velocity gun. It's not a chain gun, it's a cannon, literally, if you would call it a cannon, but it's a main gun that's of traditional pattern. 73 millimeter, it was a very successful weapon, but it's not frontline Russian. Now it is and this is why I would be curious about some of the videos you see like a Ukrainian soldier shows off captured BMP one Guys the BMP ones were mostly being delivered doesn't mean there aren't some of the Russian inventory I'm sure there are but most of those are actually showing up on the Ukrainian side and we commented on this six and seven years ago when they were mobilizing, you know, BMP rdms BMPs and BMDs. The BMD is the airborne vehicle. Very, very different. Much smaller. Basic silhouette looks the same as supposed to be intentional. So you obviously confuse one for the other. If you're fighting it and you may not necessarily figure out right away what you got in front of you. That's why you make silhouettes similar. It's also true, this is why when World War II, Japanese pilots and American pilots, I wiped out a major Japanese carrier. Well, it's because the small carriers were intentionally designed to basically silhouette the big carriers. Hopefully, it's a sad situation, but if you did get tagged, we didn't lose as much. This is also true of the cruiser classes that came up later in the war. If you look at their basic configuration, They dropped all the variants that we saw before World War II and basically just made a small silhouette version of a standard Missouri or New Jersey, you know, size weapon system. Only scaled down. But when you bombed it, all of our Japanese about all we destroy a American battleship. I'm sure it was. And the basic silhouette appeared to be the same because the configuration was the same. So that's the other thing we have with the weapons systems that are out there. The propaganda videos that they're pushing with a reminder that, well, they're using the props they've got. And it's kind of tough because everybody's using former Warsaw Pact equipment, which has now been updated. Example, when I mentioned that BMP-1, well, who got a whole plethora of BMP-1s? Well, the Ukrainians. Remember Germany had a bunch of leftover East German equipment after the fall of the wall supposedly. And when East Germany took over West Germany, did I say that? Well, Merkel's a leftist was with the East Germans Stasi and was put in charge of all of Germany. Well, that toady turd had no business being anywhere near the German government. But that's again, I guess with the communist being in charge, why not? However, when they did come together, all the Russian inventory, forgive me, the Russian type inventory built under contract by the East Germans became West Germany's or greater Germany's again. For a period of time, initially, they just held on to them and just redesignated them under the inventory of the Bundeswehr. However, they can start getting along in the tooth. There's more sophisticated weapons that Germany wants to promote for Germany. The martyr, for instance, and other weapons, and the newer Sleppards, or whatever else they got in battle tanks. So anyway, they ended up side stepping these vehicles and upgrading a little bit to try and market them because there's other countries that need tanks. Lo and behold, their last batch of these apparently are the BMP ones that went to the Ukraine. So that little video that's floating around, understand that, oh, you mean the BMP, that East German BMP that you try to mark up for propaganda purposes and then run a little storyline through, is that what you're talking about? Yeah, that's what they're talking about. It's a wag the dog kind of thing. By the way, the East German BMPs are very specific signature points on the vehicles that make them awfully easy to identify. Let me tell you something, the Russians aren't running any East German, forgive me, slash former East German, but, you know, German BMPs. But the Ukrainians are. So when I saw this, like, huh, wow, what a bunch of lion sex a BS. But then again, that's typical. All you give off, who do you think is running the Wag the Dog Productions? And as it is, again, the one thing about this, these operations is pay attention to all the video footage that is live, although most of it you can't be sure isn't, you know, four years old, six years old, or an absolute, you know, CG fabrication or video game fabrication, which they've done quite a few times now. In reality, it was a complete lie. But if you can find any real time footage, Pay attention to the equipment, pay attention to how it's used. I've mentioned many times it's still the best classroom material right now for you to help understand the weapons you'll be taking from the war, weapons you'll be taking from the warm dead hands of your enemies. Watch to see how they're operated, how they're used, how they work, especially where they're doing it in the field because there's no play acting going on, especially when they're pressed. How are they operating the equipment? What are they doing to bring it into service? What safety procedures do they have to engage and override? Now where is it shut off in order for them to operate the weapon system? RPG7 is very, very user friendly for unconventional and para-conventional or even conventional operations. Do you know how one works? Well, let me recommend something. Go hunt down real time, real combat footage imagery. There was some really good stuff from the Ukrainian militia of the Donbas, but they've done everything they can to purge a lot of those accounts and block everything now. As much as anything, those were more valuable than the junk or propaganda or drivel generated by the Ukrainian or by the US government for the Ukraine. Most of that is pretty much worthless turd imagery that's staged. On the other hand, grandpa, two kids that are teenagers and a guy that looks like he's almost death warmed over, working as a combat team and launching RPG seven rounds of mixed types, watching them dismount, unwrap the equipment, pull the safety features off. load the weapon, shoulder the weapon, site the weapon and engage that video. Those kinds of videos are priceless. Real time, actual activity. And again, stop it, turn it back. This is what's cool. It's not like it's just live and you can't watch it again. Slide it back, watch what they do. Slide it back, watch what they do again. What did he do? What was he engaging on the warhead there? Oh, that's that wire safety you didn't think about. Nobody shows you in a movie. So you got to remember you've got that little disconnect wire safety. You got to pull that out. And then you, you know, once you're ready to launch, once you've loaded into the weapon and locked it into the starter cams, those little starter tabs, you got to have those little electrical, those electrical jolts going through there to activate the main charge. That's why it twisted in a place there guys, because you're locking it in and those two little contacts are making proper contact, aggressive contact. You didn't know that, right? So all the things you're seeing are done for a reason. And in a fighting situation, wasted action doesn't, you know, that people who have a lot of wasted action don't survive very long. But there's no wasted action. Everything serves a purpose. It has a reason. If there's something you're watching, freeze the frame. I'm serious about this. What did he just do? Why did he do that? Back it up, freeze it, put it up on the big screen on your big television. It'll look like you're right there and then some. In many cases, then some, a lot more, a lot bigger, which is good because you identify what the process is and perhaps even properly make out what you've probably heard an instruction on, but now you can physically see it. Visualize it. You're probably not going to own an RPG seven right now. Now you can buy a D. What one which were a training aid. Those are fantastic. There are PG to training aid. Fantastic. Also an example of how things work. So down the road when we start building our own because yes, we will. You understand different ideas and you might come up with what you might think is a better solution. But first need to be able to physically see what the thing does. A, you can have an example, it's demilitarized, RPG2, RPG7. By the way, they did have examples over at GunPartsCorp.com, just in case you're wondering, and also several other companies have had these, Centerfire, even, CenterfireSystems.com. There are still some RPG seven and RPG two D watts out there. They've been D wadded with, you know, large dollops cut out of the main tube. There's a reason because remember it's a recoilless weapon. It's not, it's not just rocket launch. So when you hear RPG, it's a rocket assist downrange. Initially it's a recoilless route. When you pull the trigger, there's an explosive charge going off next to your head. Oh, did you think that through? Yeah, that's not a rocket motor that launches the round. It's an explosive charge, and that's why there's such an aggressive back blast. It'll, you know, cut you in two, drill a hole three, or rake your face right off if you're in line with it. So remember, in movies, you gotta watch and pay attention. You pop up with an RPG-7 in an enclosed area. It's really kind of embarrassing for the eardrums of everybody involved. Plus the back blast really messes you up Something you all better be thinking about constantly By the way, it's a social truth use a rocket system because the rocket back blast is pretty aggressive, too So it was rocket in the enclosed area like a small room It's really bad for you unless you make sure you open up everything you can so that all that back pressure goes someplace Rather than reflect it off the wall and burned your ass Which is what it'll do. Well, if you're lucky, just bump your ass. Might take a chunk out of you. That's very embarrassing. Okay. So anyway, prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. There's some excellent training aids out there. They're called videos and you can sort through them. Now there are a lot of other videos on weapons operations that are NATO, whatever. Peruse them. You need to know how to run a mag 58. Are you going to own a mag 58? Probably not. But are you going to possibly acquire one most notably? Yes. So you should not have run a saw you should not run and not not a skill saw. Oh, they show you should not run a skill saw. But in this case a squad automatic weapon. Absolutely. Whatever variant 5 5 6. The weapons sections arms such as the M 60 the mag 58 and its counterpart American. The Browning machine gun for sure. Browning M250 caliber, absolutely. And guys, watch as many videos of true operation of the weapon as you can. How do you bring it into service? How do you load it? Remember, it's a video. You can stop it. You can freeze it. You can rewind it. Take it back a bit. Slide it back. Play it again. Slide it back. Play it again. This is just like you would do if you were in the military and you had the gun in front of you. Where they teach you all about loading and unloading. Loading and unloading. Loading and unloading. Loading, you see how it works? But you get to watch somebody else do it. You're physically not really doing it yet. But you can learn a lot because you put the idea between your brain pan, between ears and your brain pan. which is a really good thing. Prior to proper planning, again, prevents piss poor performance. If you see it, chances are you might recall what you got to do with that M2. Now, don't forget that the Brownings are, we have a lot of Browning machine guns. So the old videos on the Browning 1919, you should watch them. There are too many thousands and thousands and thousands of Brownings in malicious service to the point where that weapon is not retired by any stretch of the imagination. Hell, we're even to the point where we're making brand new links now in a, you know, U.S. made, but made by militia resources. Why? Well, there's two ways we do it. You make cloth belts or you make links. Go ahead, caller, jump in there. Yeah, those text mics. Yeah, hey, I was going to get in on the drawing, but also I wanted to ask you, are you guys still selling the Green Horse book? I'm sure. Which one again? The green green horse book. Yes. Yes. Okay. I don't know if you said green horse or green light because we have I remember we do have that Light available, although I haven't offered in a while. Yes. We do have the green horse available. Yes In fact, I just go ahead It's a donation of $25 if you want to donate $25 and that'll you know Get you the copy of the green horse and we throw a few other things in there always Okay, that's what I'm wearing. I'm good Yeah, and again you can you can do that by donating through PayPal Just make sure you put green horse in the notes and then you got a skill give me a mailing address so we can do that or You can send it to PB n PO box 1 9 4 Dexter, Michigan 48 1 3 0 the usual PO box, you know PB n PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130. Do $25 and make sure that I have a clear mailing address. Print it so that I can, you know, it's a clean mailing address I can shoot it to. Okay. We'll get it to you as quick as we can. I got one going to Maine here as a matter of fact, so. And I actually need to, it's about time, unfortunately we have a snowstorm, everybody's got the disaster snowstorm around the corner here. Supposedly, you know, tomorrow and Friday. Although it sounds like it's trying to bring it to us closer and sooner, but we'll see. I'm not gonna panic about that, we'll just keep plugging away. But we do have those available, we still have the rifle marksmanship. package which some of you guys really like because it has the shooter manuals for each of the shooters, now the shooter log, and it has the course packet for setting up a class for any rifle marksmanship with the M16. Oh, okay. So, yeah. Yeah. We need to repost those. I think they're, I don't think they're on the page right now, but you know that's something we've been working on, so our heads got to take care of, so we'll do what we can to update that. Anything else? Go ahead, please. We're almost there. Oh, yeah. You were talking about all the fear-mongering down here in Texas where it's going to get cold. But man, you think it's the end of the world down here. Sub-Zero. We're talking about Friday's Sub-Zero Windchill with 31 degrees, 32, 17 in the morning. But I mean, it's, you know, I haven't been at HUB yet, but I've been hearing that the stuff's flying off the shelf, you know? Well, you know what gets me about that is Texas is always known about coal. But it is here that is not a surprise. Texas is in this tunnel that's the Great Plains, the bottom of the Great Plains. And the winds come whipping down the plain, Oklahoma. It starts out in the northern end of the Great Plains in Canada coming off the Arctic Circle just like we get it off of the Arctic Circle when it comes over Lake Superior. And it shoots right down. And if you get a hellish winter, it takes that, I mean, there's nothing to resist it. It's a big bowl all the way from the top of Canada, well, middle of Canada, all the way down to Texas. Guys, go look at the topography of the Great Plains. And Texas has gotten cold traditionally. I mean, that's one of the things that, you know, it's not as extreme as up here in good old Michigan, but, you know, it's impressive. You get the tail end of that northerly coming off of Missouri and out of, you know, out of, you know, eastern Oklahoma. Oh, man, that swings around and hooks through the state and gets bumped around by the Gulf Stream different ways, the way the Gulf works. and it kind of throws a dart, you know, it hits wherever it wants to. So, it's just interesting that they, well, I don't know, Tex-Mex, maybe it's this, you know, everybody needed something to panic, become panic about because they weren't panicking enough with the Corona beer virus and they miss it now. They miss the panic of the Corona beer virus, you know? Just to remind them, I mean, I say it will get cold down here, but it does, it's not like, It's going to last for a month. There's usually, I mean, they've been that big one lasted a little over a week. I mean, it's not like Minnesota or Montana. I mean, snowed in, right? 20 foot banks of snow for months. Well, yeah, they go up, like you said, in Montana, they walk up, you know, the mountains, they walk out their second floor. They don't even bother going, they don't even dig out. up there. You know, that's one thing I've been to a lot of places. What's that door on the second floor for when I was younger? Well, that's for winter. Don't you guys? No, we don't have snow like that. You know, we get snow, but we don't have snow where you have a front door that's on the second floor without a porch. You know what I mean? Don't even have a wraparound. The snow is so heavy that they literally just walk up into the house and park the snowmobiles by the by the second floor door. I've seen enough pictures of it. Downward to Texas. Well, I kind of laughed too. First, you know, one of the times you were down there, we can't deliver anything. It's snowing out there. I looked out the window and there was this little dusting of snow on the pavement, like a dust, a wisp. Otherwise, clear pavement. And it looks pretty good over here. Oh, sir, we can't deliver any of that dumpster until tomorrow. Yeah, maybe the snow will be gone by then. It's like there is no snow. I live in Michigan. There's no snow out there. There's nothing. It's like, what are you, are you kidding me? And then in reverse order with the flash flooding in the spring, the water is 12 inches deep running down the road and people are driving around trying to get home or go to, you know, to Lowe's or Menards or whatever. Not Menards, Lowe's or Home Despot. It's like, really? Okay. So again, just everybody contemplate your belly button, you know, remember chant your mantra, you know, om yaliman om yaliman. And remember, don't bring your index finger and your thumb together and just calm down and then still buy some food, but buy some ammo too. And while you're at it, while you're at the store, remember, always buy more ammo. That's the big thing. Otherwise, I'll tell you what, in Tex-Mex, anything else? Please. Oh, no, that's about it. Yeah, I just wanted to hope to get in on the the the drawing and the I wanted to get that but it was one of those things I kept thinking, oh, yeah, I'll get that later and I'll get it later. I'm gonna get it later. But not this time I'm gonna get it done. Very good. Well, again, we're gonna crank out a bunch more. I've got enough to probably take care of any orders here. But it just as a reminder, I got to tell the printer crank out a bunch because I need to always want to be ahead on those because we have a lot of people get them here. different. Everybody, it's part of like the general militia. If you're putting something together, this is one of those books you want to have on the shelf because it's, you know, an idea book. Everybody always asks, well, what would you recommend? And it's like, well, here, one of these, one of those, two of these, one of those, 10 or 20 of those. And, you know, it's just a, it's one of those ongoing, we consume them items. So appreciate reminding me because I will probably end up getting another 20 right away, if not a half or two or long print the whole strike. Another thing for everybody asking, it's the Green Horse. It's a book that was put together. It's a how-to book, kind of like in the vein of what was done with Patriots, surviving the coming collapse by James Wesley Rawls. It has a storyline, but more important, it has information and it's designed to make you think or it hopefully attracts your attention while giving you ideas and helping to understand how to make things work or how things are put together and then how they can be used. So that's the purpose behind the Green Horse. And it's, again, a solution. It's not just complaining about the problems. Everybody complains about the problems. You just gotta have the answers. And on that note too, James Wesley Rawls, survivalblog.com, James Wesley Rawls, go to survivalblog.com, survivalblog.com. And guys, we haven't mentioned in a while, but James Wesley Rawls wrote a whole series of books. Patriots was the first one, originally the end of the world as we know it. It was the name of the book when it was being developed. But Patriots surviving the coming collapse by James Wesley Rawls. Grab that and then grab the other follow-up books that were done with all of the other characters kind of like intertwining the story. So that'll help you out there. Anyway, before we go any farther, I don't want to get too far off the bottom of the hour, guys, because we have the bottom of the hour. Weapons Wednesday break. Edward has it right there at his fingertips. And I know that even as we speak, here we go. There are mannequins, but this one is more useless. I feel true. It shoots me. Before God. My right. Why come ye to the red coats? Put mine to mass builds. In our valleys there is danger, and there's danger in our hills. Oh, hear ye not just singin' out of the view, though wild and free. Well soon you'll know the right foot from the tree. Oh, the right foot. Oh, the right foot. Get our hands in the root of nudge, right foot. You may ride a good lead speed, you may not stern the master You forward march with speed, but you'll learn to back much faster When you meet our mountain boys And they'll lead our journey star Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle Hit our hand, we'll prove no frightful And you know graves at home, back across the briny water And heavy must come, like flocks to the slaughter But it's the way the job must do, and the sooner it is begun If Lyndon's figure hold a button, the quicker it will be done Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no to rifle Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no to rifle that. Again, for everybody out there, it is Weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon, but don't stick it into a pencil sharpener to make it sharper. Sharpen it. No, no, no. Instead, remember, videos, books, read, immerse yourself in the art. Remember, again, military science. There are so many different subjects. Now, before we go any farther, again, I should have done this actually the first hour, too. Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Cornills, Mr. Neustad, Mr. Knight-Knithammer, I think I got that right, you'll slap me if I'm wrong. Mr. Ritter, contact Merv Miller immediately again. Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Cornills, Mr. Neustad, Knithammer, and Richard contact Merv Miller ASAP. Obviously, there's no training exercises this weekend coming up. It's a holiday. But we do have ready up units and there's some other stuff that needs to be done. Apparently, Merv Miller has a bunch of communications equipment that came in. They made a massive order of mouth and also accoutrements. And I think they also purchased a guy I can't remember the name. It's the other. The other off the wall company, the newer one than boffing that is basically the lesser expensive. I'm tired of radios. So apparently they bought a one of the clutches from eBay. That's like, I think 30 some radios handhelds and the other model. Those are going to the. What is it? Well, it must be Newstead because it's the three 31st company service support. So they're probably getting that other radio model. There was something they chose it simply because of price. It works the same. But what I understand, we had a question about this, the batteries are interchangeable, but we'll find out more about that as soon as I get a chance to see them. So again, Mr Burrell's, Mr Cornell's, Mr Newstead, Mr Nighthammer, Ritter. contact Murph Miller and you guys work out in the next day or two here before the storm hits to probably go pick up your equipment and distribute as quickly as you can. It probably won't get done right away because it's a big block of radios and also some base stations that we pointed them towards. So everybody's equipment is in. So guys go jump at it, drag it home as quick as you can. You don't want it piled up in one place for very long. Anyway, uh... I'll remember to do that at 8 o'clock also just so I make sure everybody gets a message. So you go out tonight. Don't wait till tomorrow. Well, you can do it tomorrow. Gee, guys, if you don't mind, we're from Michigan. I don't have a problem driving in the snow, okay? But again, sooner you do that, sooner you can carry on with other things. But let's get the stuff dispersed. We don't want it piled up. Okay, you want to get it where it belongs. Anyway, another neat thing here. We've been mentioning Palmetto State Armory. We kind of run cycles. Bear Creek Arsenal has had some really good buys and really some of the best buys on AR-15 uppers and complete rifles here recently. But Palmetto has been moving in a lot of other directions and needles to say their new pistol, well, their pistol that they've, it's not brand brand new now. It's been out for a little bit. But the dagger, They have a package deal and it's over at Palmetto State Armory dot-com Don't know if they sold out or don't know if they've changed the sale I doubt that they would for because it's a Christmas sale thing But it's the dagger pistol with five magazines and a hundred rounds of ammunition and it's $400. It's the dagger the PSA dagger 100 rounds and of course five magazines. Now this is Glock interchangeable. So that's really cool in and of itself. And again, parts interchangeable to a degree. So we'll see. Again, I've seen some of the write ups and some of the people shooting them. I don't immediately know if anybody that's there or nearby has picked one up. But it is a decent price for an American made pistol and a man again. PSA is good about backing up their product. I haven't heard anything bad about them. Of course, there's always they won't like somebody. People don't like high point. Oh God, I mentioned high point people. Oh God, Mark, you wouldn't hold a high point. Oh, I carry a high point, high point in a heartbeat. And again, with the PSA, they also have got a number of AKs, including the latest, I think they're not the absolute newest. But they're doing a knockoff of the China import rifle that everybody was knowing and loving for $125 apiece when they came in years ago, including folding bayonet, but it's all in-country American made, as far as I know. If you were looking for adding to the inventory and matching up rifles, some people like to do that. In other words, no, I want to have a whole case and I only bought 20 and I've got a case for 30. I'd like to buy another 10. Well, you want to do that. Cool. You can actually do that now and top off the case with look-alike weapons. So that's over at Palmetto State Armory, PSA. And another thing, don't forget, you always mentioned reloading earlier in the first hour. Palmetto State Armory does have reloading supplies. Now what they have right now, I don't know because it's always fluid. They also have some really good clearances or you know last ups because they're switching out to another inventory and they like to clear the shelf off quick. That's usually why you see the clearances. Okay, let's get this out of here because the new batch is coming in. But they do have dies and they also have a lot of other reloading items that would be definitely useful if you are looking at doing that 40 cal pistol or 9mm or 45 ACP or 7.62x25 whatever it is you're into. And again, you don't have to invest in a turret or a massively expensive reloading tool. To be quite honest, a regular O-press, or even a C, anything is better than nothing, number one. It's slower, but then again, depending on how much you're consuming, the idea is that you're able to put it back online. I like the O-presses or the older C-presses for doing production line work. One person does one step. The next person does one step. You have a little tray slide in front of the presses. When you fill up the tray, you slide it sideways. It goes on to the next station. You run for about an hour or two hours at a time. Everybody stops, takes a break, gets some coffee, have some pop, go pee, and whatever else you might have to do. Then come back and everybody changes workstations. What? Well Mark, you were just doing that. It's up to you. I like to change people up because that way everybody is working on each of the steps. So if you're going to work through the night or into the evening or whatever, traditionally is what we always used to do. You have the ability to increase the learning curve, accelerate it and it's repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. So the only thing I'd recommend if you do a production run where you have a bunch of operators, is you also have a quality control straw boss. Just like in a factory, you grab a unit, you grab a tray, you do a quick spec on the, you know, check with a powder measure, a powder scale, making sure that your powder is consistent, something I talked about earlier. You can also, with regard to final product, you wanna grab a tray. There's 50 to a tray, typically, it'd be mostly 100 count trays, depending on how you've set it up. and you'll take the round and do a quick mic on it, check the length of the case, check the spec to make sure that everything is dimensionally correct. How's the primer? How are they seated? Everything going properly or copacetic there? Congratulations, it looks good. Final product done, you're out of here. And again, every step you want to check, bullet case trimming, length of the case, make sure that's consistent. And again, you have specs for each one on hand. You'll have to guess. You always want to reference to confirm. It does not mean you couldn't remember the tolerances. But I recommend you have a clipboard and you actually have a quality control list right there. When you are spec'ing the case, what should the length of the case be? Ensure that the cases are being properly deburred. There's no deformities, nothing alien, strange or unusual. Again, the same is true with regard to your powder trickler, what you're doing with the powders, et cetera, et cetera. Go right on down the line. Also, primer seating, I mentioned that. Remember, you can seat too deep or compress or contort the primer, or you can also shallow seat it. where it's actually extended beyond the case, that's not good. And that can also run into accidental discharge or again, creates other issues with regard to a malfunction with the primer making contact or forgive me, the fireman making contact with the primer. A number of things can happen, not properly seated, may also back out farther and create or hinder operation with regard to the ejection of the case, depending on what's going on. Blow right out, be another piece of debris laying inside somewhere where it doesn't need to be and it's picked up with the next round loaded and all of a sudden you've got a jam-o-matic on your hands. We don't want that. So again, consistency, quality control, especially critical. And also remember the straw bosses job is to keep it on everybody to make sure no one's getting a little overly tired. That's when you make boo-boos. So you also want to take breaks. Everybody gets pumped up, but common sense every so often, just everybody shut down. Everybody step off to the side, step away from the workstation for a bit. Now we don't get cross-eyed. And we're going to go back to work in 15 minutes and we're back to what we're doing. Whatever you want to do, 10 minutes. But we want everybody on the line together. Work as a team. And get used to working as a team. Anyway, other things. Let's see. Oh, yeah. With regard to, and again, discussing the nuclear threat issue one more time. Another thing that you need to be ready to do is general decontamination. And there's a number of tools that are out there. And I've reminded you, I've talked about this before. Well, with nuclear, biological, and chemical in general. Certain things you just there's not much you can really do with radiological other that obviously you know Be cause yourself of whatever it is. It might have landed on you fallout Or contaminated material that's dusted up first of all evacuate or leave the area of activity get as far away from points of impact as possible number one Number two is if you are going to move, know what the wind drift factor is because remember, if you're running away from a detonation, but you're running downwind from it, then you're going to end up catching up with the fallout and being bathed by it. So it's especially critical that you identify wind pattern with regard to the activity. Again, moving to the, you may have to move parallel with it, some depending on what your reference, why you're traveling. Are you following up on personnel that you're trying to recover from an area? Well, all of you had better be ready to deal with NBC basic fallout protection. Not the blast, not the flash, you may not meet him, we're near it. But first of all, 80,000 plus feet up, hammerheads out. follows the wind pattern, comes back down because it's heavier than air and all those people or automobiles and wooden buildings and nematodes, leaves, everything that's now ash at 80,000 feet is coming back down. It's bonded to other material, it is carbonized and it is radioactive. So we want to try to avoid that, first of all. But if you're stuck in a situation where you are down range, slick siding, the quickest, easiest way for you to put together a suit. And I really, really am serious about this, guys. I've done this for years. I actually worked as an NBC instructor. The 50 or 60 gallon heavy gauge trash bags. They are a perfect over garment. In fact, they're relatively seamless, aren't they? So you can cut a head hole, you can cut a couple of arm holes, you take a couple of lesser bags and you make arms. Mr. Duct tape is your friend, so you can improvise, adapt and overcome. The big thing here again is that the core coverage is to prevent adhesion or laying of fallout on your person. Now, if anything radioactive gets near you, it's going to give you the kiss of whatever it has in the way of rankings. It's going to deliver something to you. So we're going to try to avoid that if at all possible. A, B, if we are in the environment, we minimize contact. Now, this is where a slick side suit is a better choice than a regular chem suit because chem suits are designed to be filtering systems And because they are a micro porous material on the outside, dust and particulates will collect. A slick side surface suit like you see with, remember the Czechoslovakian MBC suits. There's two ways you go, full sandwich filter or baggy system. Well, if you'll notice, they went with the baggy system, mostly because again, their logic is First and foremost, they're looking at a nuclear threat environment that they're going to work through. Okay, depending on the philosophy of the army that you're dealing with determines why they consider certain defense technology dominant. For the US, obviously our little wiener attitude is that we're going to bio someone or chem someone. And by the way, our government did that with the Corona Beer Virus scam, didn't they? Oh, that's right. They did. So if you'll notice, the regular US military pattern is a full sandwich breathing system that has a porous but microfibrous pre-filter, which then has the charcoal filter inlay underneath it, a foam, foam stabilized. And this is designed so your body can normally breathe and there's no reduction in performance. You're not being starved for oxygen. Your body isn't. Okay, you can still breathe no matter what system. But remember your body breathes also even when you're wearing clothes, which was a closer again. You can work fine if you want. Oh baby. Yeah, crack that whip. Oh, that's right. We got those in government. Oh, but anyway, now forget that the fact is that the slick side technology need be nothing more than just a basic core cover as needed. Immediately everybody's asking, well, what about your head? If you have a chem suit, chem suits come with or without hoods. Remember that most of the US military and most of Euro masks have a hood system of some kind. It's just you have to track it down. And if you can't find the one that matches, you can adapt other hoods to make them work. However, if you needed to make a hood, then Mr. Garbage Bag is your friend. And again, we're not worried about fashion statement. We're worried about survivability. And I've mentioned how we reinforce this again. We're talking the heavy, heavy gauge plastic industrial trash bags. You can buy them at Menards, you can buy them at Lowe's, Home Depot. Any big hardware has them and pretty much any conventional chain store has a variant. But the heavier gauge is what you want. Almost like a visit queen type material, only black. They can also be in green, which preferably try to get something that is in a tactical color because they do come in colors. It's not a priority, but it would be good. It would be something that, yes, if I can, I would. But I found them in green. I have medium green, dark green, but still green, black. I found them in brown because all the coyote brown and tan plastic shading that's leftover from Desert Dust Part 1, Desert Dust Part 2. Industry is going to be painting stuff coyote brown and tan for the next 15 years just because there's so much of that stuff leftover and was produced by the industry. They use it somewhere. The big thing here again also is duct tape. Now invest in a better quality duct tape, but any duct tape is better than no duct tape. Okay, so there's the therein lies the rub. How what can you afford? Rubber gloves, any rubber gloves, but ideally you want better quality because you don't really want them leaking anything. Of all the aspects of which you might be using, the rubber gloves are especially critical to being not permeated. not compromised or pre-compromised because they were made by, you know, Chau Chu Hee, Bang Bang Bao of the Southern, you know, Chinese Industrial District over in Asia. Instead, you're looking for NBC pattern or chemical hazard gloves. Two things to do. You can go to, oh, colmans.com, you can go to Sportsman's Guide and whatever, but you can also go to Grainger's. And don't forget another company I've mentioned many times, which actually does have some really good buys on gloves. Don't know what they have right now, but I bought some of them. Shop Med Vet dot com. Remember, veterinary supply, especially for dealing with biological hazard. There's a lot of different material out there that you can find that is appropriate for the kind of threat you are facing. Now you only have to do this once. Once you have the basic kits squared away, you're ready to go. Example, I recommend that you stow away at least a couple, but ideally three of those large industrial trash bags in your battle pack, in your backpack. And again, even if you have a chem suit, Flatten those suckers out and put at least one in with your your chem kit, whatever you've got set up, whatever you've committed to. At least one, but ideally two or three. They flatten out nicely. They can be pressed. What you do is fold them up really, you know, really careful. Very carefully. We'll do it proper. There we go. That's proper English. And put some weight on them. What we want to do is compress them, keep them small. and be able to insert them into the kit so they aren't going to be intruding with the other equipment that you may have already picked up. But one of the other reasons I carry the extra bags is it's a contaminant item. If it gets contaminated, it's going in the decon bag. It's going to get put with the trash. It's not going to be reused, depending on the threat. So a second and a third would be a really good idea. You're going to be probably in the environment more than once. Bad thing about World War III, multiple nuclear devices, multiple biological weapons, different events, different activities. You know, the Israelis will nuke America and blame the Russians. The Israelis will biological weapon the Americas and blame the Russians or the Chinese, you know, so they can profit from whatever they're doing. You got to get ready for getting backstabbed. You know, being backstabbed, it's going to be more than once. Pretty well guaranteed. So again, we're trying to come up with economical but very reliable solutions. And those bags are one of them. Another thing everybody's asked about, I'll reinforce this again before we go, Craig from Forbidden Knowledge should be coming up next, but for boots, rain boots or muck boots will work just fine as chem boots, as chemical boots. Regular five buckle boots, US military green boots are normally, now presently they're both the rain boot for regular issue, but they're also your chem boot guys. You know you were at the top God bless the Republic The New World Order we shall prepare ladies and gentlemen the emperors on the wrong way great for forbidden Oh, no, they must be back in the end God of all Rudolph the red nose reindeer at a very shiny note if you ever saw it You would even say I really don't think that the animal cracker qualifies as a cracker. Because it's sweet, which to me suggests cooking and putting cheese on something is sort of the defining characteristic of what makes a cracker a cracker. Very innocent, sweet, filter. We got like little Animal Cracker Discovery Channel thing. Watch the gazelle as he grazes through the open plain. It's the cheetah approaches. Watch the stocks and the gazellas look spooked. There's peaks above. The gazelle now faces man's most perilous question. Who are they next week? It's ancient history, Ben. Unless you're dying to cry your heart. I'm telling you, time's just proved. That heartaches are hidden by the sea To EJ to set the sail with Corgan Heartaches are love gonna stay EJ to set the sail Back to frost nipping at your nose Little tad cows, things sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimo Everybody knows A turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will find it hard to sleep tonight They know that Santa's on his way He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh And every mother's child is gonna spy To see if reindeer really know how to fly So I'm offering this simple phrase To kids from one to ninety-two Although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to the simple phrase, to kids from one to an attitude. Although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to... Scream the other night that a figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, we fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of the free. and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. It's number you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh sons of the republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great republic in each God-given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Dill the land of the free ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report am I quirky One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, southwest, east, north, and south. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, LibertyTreeRadio.org, and we are on the satellite. We want to say hi to all of our friends out there in the Merchant Marine. I appreciate all the work you guys are doing. Anchorage is supporting facilities and inland along with the ships themselves virtually on every ocean on the planet right now and reflected and bounced around and shared in so many ways. It's impossible to count literally. Anyway, we're also on a myriad of other communications technologies both. inside and outside these United States. Let's say hi to all of our friends over in the middle of whatever fiasco it is that's going on in Europe right now in Northern Europe. I know we haven't mentioned this. We do get a lot of mail from, well, randomly from Sweden and England. And both, I appreciate you guys listening in. And we're going to continue to do what we're doing at this end. You guys keep dealing with the problems of yours, which are far worse than ours at the moment. Anyway, it is the 21st of December. It's weapons Wednesday. This 14th year of open obvious and a your phrase, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2022 older calendar, 2022 battle for the Republic, the dance of swords. And I'll tell you what, we're going to farther the latest guns and gadgets. And if we could, let's pull that up. And we haven't done any of the guns and gadgets today so far. And I like at least in the three hour block we do for the day, at least one interlink like that because it's another way that his programming is backed up. They're fiddling with everybody on Facebook and YouTube and all the rest of the dribble. I mean, after all, you know, there's just as many, in fact, more, in fact, they're even saying right now with Facebook, there are even more feds in Facebook than there were in Twitter. just with the ones they can identify over the counter somebody hopefully was listening what I was saying and said let's stay that's a good idea let's go see what we can find out so I think what they're saying is a hundred and they start out 115 and he went to 140 I think there are 159 I easily identified feds and Lassade agents operating in Facebook. I mean, they're just flat out employees. They're not kind of sort of feds. They're just still feds, okay? So, uh, Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. I appreciate your time. Thank you for watching. I want to give you some information about what's actually going on right now on Capitol Hill. I told you in a couple videos ago that in the Lane Duck session is when a lot of stuff gets done, the end of the legislative session, a lot of spending bills, a lot of appropriations bills, the National Defense Authorization Act, these things happen every year, and stuffed inside of this year's omnibus spending package, is a ton of gun control. This bill is 4,155 pages. There is no way that any representative or senator is going to read this thing cover to cover and understand with detail everything that's in it, which is why they do these. Omnibus... actually, if you think omnibus bills should be unconstitutional, hit that subscribe button down below. Let's grow this channel and stick it to the man as far as knowledge and education. 4,100 pages plus lots of gun control. Now for some people who will want the bill, I'll try to pin it down below. It's H.R. 2617. I'll also have a link down below that Gun Owners of America has set up so that you can contact your representatives, your senators, to tell them not to approve the gun control in this spending bill. Now again, thanks to GOA for doing the work and reading this. I'm going to tell you the things that are in this bill that you should mention when you contact your reps and your senators and also send this email down in that link. So make the phone calls and send the messages via that link. Number one is a massive, a huge 14.1% budget increase for the ATF to facilitate the pistol brace ban that's coming in a couple days. Yeah, 14.1%. increase in their budget, but that's not all. A $14.4 million stipend line item for the ATF's NTC budget to maintain its illegal, searchable, nearly $1 billion record. gun registry database. They've made over $700 million available to bribe states into accepting and instituting red flag legislation. That's the bipartisan Safer Communities Act BS that they passed. Remember when those Republican senators played turncoat? Remember them, get them out of office. They're directing the VA medical centers to utilize confiscation orders on vulnerable veterans. They also want the Department of Education to push safe storage for parents' firearms. The school's not going to tell me how I'm going to handle my items. The school can piss off. Funding for the VA to maintain gun storage maps and to keep tabs on where veterans keep guns. Again, registry, BS. The seventh thing is new annual compensation for families of deceased ATF agents. Why would they want that? Well, line of duty deaths, yes. But increase the compensation. Are they anticipating more opportunities to pay this money out? I don't know. It makes you wonder. New gun control earmarks for orchid healing circles and more. Dickey amendment violations with the CDC. Remember the CDC, the Dickey amendment is you can't use public dollar bills to fund gun control. Well, the CDC, we already put on this channel, we've proved that they're suppressing self-defense. statistics and it's not going to stop. They want it to continue and they're going to pay them well for it. They also have in their programs discouraging women from exercising their Second Amendment rights. They also have anti-gun community violence intervention initiatives. They're going to pay community-based action groups, activists, because they're the ones who are going to be able to hold criminals responsible because that's how you fight crime. Yeah, more BS just more funneling of money to the those people who want to come out against the Second Amendment and also violent anti-government ideology and domestic radicalization research Wow, they really hate Americans who love their freedom. So again, 4155 pages 1.7 trillion dollars in the spending bill link is down below to the bill itself as well as the goa link so you can with a couple clicks Send a message to your reps your senators and tell them to cut this out. Also everything I mentioned the GOA link will have more information on there, it will extrapolate a little more than I have the ability to do right now. We're here in East Tennessee, baby, for those who have been asking. Thank you for your time, I appreciate each and every single one of you. Check out Blackout Coffee. We have the best coffees, teas and hot chocolates and whole bean ground flavored cake cups. That's what's kept me actually operating. Thank you to the guys and gals over at Blackout for sending me some coffee to keep me alive. And I appreciate all y'all. Like and subscribe if you found this information infuriating. Like and subscribe if you want to keep the Second Amendment around. And until we see each other again, be safe, stay vigilant, carry a gun to keep you, your friends, your family, your community safe. That's what it's for and we're not going to give it up. Take care y'all. Thank you Edward. Appreciate that. And it's Guns and Gadgets guys. Latest Guns and Gadgets go over to YouTube. This YouTube channel. Don't forget to please give all of his videos a thumbs up. It's a freebie thing. It's the only reason, again, to bring it up. It doesn't cost anything. You can find out more information. There's a lot more than just what we played a few moments ago here. So go to YouTube, then go to Guns N Gadgets. Okay. Also, not a surprise. I mean, as we know, the last minute usually they will in fact even have a separate little session, 11 o'clock at night, 1 o'clock in the morning, and might even just pass a bunch of anti-gun stuff arbitrarily because, wow, they get away with it. This is a problem. It has been a nefarious problem with these turds for a very long time and it's nothing new. It's in fact something we reported on over and over again, going all the way back to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve was not passed legitimately. It was passed by four individuals who came in during the Christmas break, the Senate. Four individuals, cold building. Everybody was long gone for Christmas back when there were no planes, remember that? And four of them went in and opened up the floor and voted for it and then walked it down to the, walked it basically down to the White House. So those four traders need to be dug up and hung. Literally, I mean, I'm not joking about that was like, no, no, I can't hang him anyway. It's okay. And when we're done, Caster carcasses into the ocean where they belong and well, erase anything that has to do with their memory except to remind everybody that they're in the Benedict Arnold class of people. Just that simple. So anyway, with regard to The bump stock issue now, this is an I told you so I in fact for years I've been discussing this with everybody that Guys one way or another they're going to turn around and interpret it as a shoulder stock. Everybody came up with different verbiage. It's you know, a a an arm brace I know what the argument is for it, but we don't again, we don't have to, you know, guess as to what the scurrilous mind of the bat faggot and the anti gun people out there, what they were going to come up with. They cyclically do these things only they've done it on a larger and larger scale with every passing year. before it was a random weapon and they'd approve it and it'd be built and everybody would have it. And then all of a sudden, oh, we've decided that two or 3000 of you bought this gun and now it's not legal and you have to surrender it. Remember the USA12, anybody? And by the way, it was really fascinating. is the USA 12, they attacked and they turned right around. They let three different countries bring in the exact same stinking firearm. In fact, Turkey makes several variations on the theme and all of them come into the US. So how does that work? Oh, I know how it works. It's the old story. Arbitrary and capricious activity on the part of a bunch of skanks that just need to be run out of this country at bayonet point off the end of a pier with a backpack full of rocks. It's that simple. We have seen this before, okay? The big thing is, as I said, number one, although, yeah, everybody has always loved light, small light rifles, okay? Period. When you're in the military, on occasion, you actually handled them. The reason that the 11-inch, 10-inch barrel, 8.5, take a pic, there's been several variations, what, over the last 50 years? With the air 15 the all stemmed from the XM 177 which by the way was although it was a 556 the government the military rated it as a submachine gun SMG Now everybody had to have one. Oh man. Those were like such neat little compact package guns, etc and for what they were intended or eventually where they were used by for instance Phoenix project, you know assassins Raider units had come in, kick in a door, have a list of people to kill that night, go out, kill all the people that were on the list, and get back into boats and head back down river up river. That's what they were for, just like the Mac 10. What was Mac 10 for? Kicking the door, high volume of fire, 45 ACP, bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada And it became a weapon that like other arms gravitated towards team leaders because it was considered to be a manageable close quarter carbine in government standard. They said SMG, but it's a 556 short AR 15 M 16 family of rifle. And for getting in close turning around and while you're doing management things. It gave you comparable firepower to everybody else in the team. Much shorter so you can maneuver it. And if he has a commander you had to dictate like a squad leader or a sergeant. You'll notice like in platoon, pay attention. Look in platoon, remember? Oh yeah, they got the cool guns. Yeah, the squad, the senior sergeants and the sergeants got the cool guns. Not all of them, but some of them did. They gravitated towards them. Let me explain to you why the pike was issued to NCOs and why pistols were issued to NCOs and then eventually car beans and musketoons. They needed to be able to swing around and shoot somebody who might be trying to ban it or shoot them that's on the friendly side. Management, sometimes it's not loved by everybody. You all understand that? And that's the reason that the sergeant carried a revolver. Now, granted he could also use that fire power and if he was smart, he was going to use that fire power to plug a hole during like the Civil War where you had revolvers in service finally. That gave you six sharp rounds to put somewhere where you needed them. And that way it might assist to keep the line solid rather than the line failing. But the other reason for the NCO carrying that weapon was to make sure that when the individual that decided he didn't need to stick around with the rest of you started to run, well, you didn't need that to become a route because everybody started following the leader. So typically, you either poked them back with, you know, in the ribs and they got the idea that, oh, yeah, oh, the Sarge is watching. Or, kaplock, now somebody shot somebody. And the Muscatoon or the short barrel weapon was typically serving the same purpose. It overlaps into trench guns in World War I and also World War II, light automatic weapons, etc., through to, you know, to Korea and Vietnam, Vietnam where the M16 comes in. Whole new family of short, tiny guns. made with the exact same mission statement as the original NCO Pike or the pistol or the Muscatoon. If you look in most very graphic illustrations of, for instance, Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and into the Civil War, but by the Civil War, the revolver becomes more dominant, you'll see that the The fire team or well basically the squad leader is carrying a unique weapon totally different from everybody else's There's a reason okay, so just pay attention there. You might also notice there's a whole series of really well done artwork period artwork pieces that are a series of the US military where it's each period and Basically, they depict one of the branches like an artilleryman say Revolutionary War an artillery man, they usually incorporated a Minuteman in there, but they grudgingly did that. And in addition to that, a, for instance, an officer of the infantry, general staff officer, and if there was a female counterpart during that time, she would be depicted also. In each period, they did one for, well, they did one for the Rev. War. the war of 1812, the Mexican-American war, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American wars, everybody wants to forget to, and World War I, World War II, Korea, into Vietnam. The same artist did all of these paintings, but each time these were commissioned, consistently the author, the artist, did an entire battery. up to the present war that conveniently he was a part of or that he was, you know, envisioning at the time because he was witnessing it. So again, the little short barrel rifle, yeah, it's cool, but now it's coming back to bite everybody's in, everybody in the ass. And I don't know why there seems to be a real complication over this, because here's how it works. Just take the shoulder brace slash the arm brace off. and put it back to whatever configuration is required and that's it. But may take that shoulder brace, that arm brace and make it disappear. Under no circumstances do you give it to anybody who told them, you know, some bat faggot or some cop because they're not your friend. Oh, it's a good thing you turned it in. I wouldn't have known you had it, but now I do so I can charge you now. So prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance just reconfigure the weapon as required if it's a handgun. Leave it that way make all the rest of your accoutrements disappear if you're going to keep it. Personally, I don't know how you're going to be selling. See, that's a problem. It's going to really vouch the market with everybody terrified that you know with different interpretations and with the bat faggots coming out. and you know, literally lying about whatever it is that's in front of them. This has happened many times, not a little bit. It's constant. It's not unique to this time. They've done it for as long as I've been alive and beyond, I guarantee. They're liars. They're going to fabricate crap. They're going to lie to you about what is presently law. Their job, as far as they're concerned, is to see how much they can steal from you. They like to take your guns, put them in their collection, or they have a little gun market under the table where they're selling your stuff. They're thieves. They're absolute pirate thieves. You're looking at those pirate thieves, you're doing fine. You think of them as anything else, you're at a disadvantage and somehow you've retarded yourself. Okay, just a heads up there. The big thing is, and this is also true of the idea about quote unquote silencers. I've mentioned this a million times. And of course, everybody goes, well, no, we found a sly way to get around it. No, you didn't. No, as long as it, in fact, if you're going to want to sly way, don't tell anybody. Just whatever you're going to do, do it off the side. Don't show anybody. You bought it for, I would assume, hopefully the war that's coming. But as far as anything you're doing like that, nobody needs to see it. You don't need to show it off to anyone or anything like that. New. In fact, right now, like I said before, you don't need a silencer. Don't worry about automatic weapons, shoulder stocks, that kind of thing. No explosives, no focus on your primary firearms, your primary weapons, gussy them up, dress them up, however you choose, son. You can gussy them up just fine. Oh, that's partier and a pig seer. Anyway, put it all together and wait. In fact, if you do anything with your money, build another gun. And then build another gun, and then build another gun. And first of all, don't tell me, well, Mark, we can't cave into the guys. The only way you're going to uncave into them is if we shoot their ass. And until that happens, and a lot of people will tell you all about how we're gonna stand up, we're gonna show them, they're gonna be so impressed with our argument. Well, from the legal end of the courtroom, that's fine. But every time that we've ever had people step up because we're going to have the weapon on my hip and open carry. And they're not going to stop us, we have a right. And the cops will intentionally go through the whole crowd where they should have been killed right there. and they'll go through the whole crowd and arrogantly walk right. They'll go through the crowd. They go come up from the side. They'll go through the whole crowd and slowly saunter through, wagging their lodge, weaning. And then they'll come up and they'll take the person who was in front and everybody stands there like deer in the headlights. Because well, actually everybody should just reach out and torn to pieces physically. Don't have to even shoot them. Just grab them and tear apart. There's 2,000, 5,000, 10,000 of you. Don't let them. First of all, they don't take anybody. It's finished. That's just all there is to it. That's how it should be. That's what everybody's going to have to learn. Listen to visitor from the past at the beginning and understand visitor from the past was written at the end of the Vietnam War. What year is it? 2022. Well, we've learned a lot of lessons and you should have learned some life lessons and you might be really really young and you're going, well, there's all kinds of other things we can do. They're really exciting. Yep. And you should keep doing them while you're ready to shoot their ass. And it's like I told several people before this last couple of weeks, like, hey, I'll support you. Whatever you're doing, but just be ready to shoot their ass. Right up to the moment where we go to war, we're going to be doing all the things that normally would happen. What do you think was going on? In 1775 on April 19th, one fine spring morning. You were two counties away from where the shooting was going on. People were still planting, putting the cows out for pasture, feeding the chickens, all the other fun stuff. Of course, half the people that would normally be there were on their way to Lexington and then Concord and then chased the British all the way to Boston shooting their ass. But for everybody else, same as usual. The world isn't going to, in fact, you can't afford to have the world stop while you fight the aggressor. You're going to have to have all of the other things going on. You just saw what happened with the Corona Beer Virus scam. What did that do for us? That's an example of nobody using common sense or thinking through the process, except for the pricks who did it to you because they knew that most people wouldn't step back. and actually think through what it was that was being demanded by these swine and yahooty trash that are trying to burn down the country. Think about that. Anyway, for the armed support, the forearm resting systems, if you can just take them off and make them disappear, you don't turn them in, you don't tell, nobody, if anybody were to finally ask, Those are sold to somebody else at one of the gun shows. You don't remember who the hell it was. Besides, you sold it separate as a part and there was no restriction in selling it. So piss on it. It's that simple, but make sure it's completely gone from your property. It's not going to enhance your fight if you get it. It's not going to enhance your combat ability. If you do get into a real fight, well, I need that there. That little support isn't going to do anything to significantly change your ability to use that weapon for the kind of fight it was meant to engage in. Short barrel with a short barrel pistol with any kind of support, it'll work. When the time comes, put it back on. Yes, it's useful, but in the initial stage, Right now it's bigger heavier more firepower And if you're using a small gun like that, you'll probably they'll probably be so close you can start at their ankles and stitch them with a 20 round or 30 round mag From their ankle to their crown and maybe have a couple of rounds pop over their head and that's some I auto Just when you go on spraying pray, but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but Okay, I wanted to make sure, I thought I heard a little noise. So, we're at the bottom of the hour, and Edward, that means we have the bottom of the hour, Weapons Wednesday break. Which should be any moment. And for all of you out there, you're listening to Liberty Tree Radio, www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Because this is my rifle. I hope. Well, wait, that might be off. So, okay, in the meantime, for everybody out there, it is, again, Weapons Wednesday, as we pointed out. So, well, what do you do in place of that stock or that support? Well, there's a rubber baby buggy bumper thing that goes on the end. There's something nobody's thought about with any of these. Now, let me ask you, have you checked your air 15? Do you have a pressure relief screw as the retaining screw for your stock on your buffer? You all know what I'm talking about? I always thought this was a fascinating thing. How many of you have an air 15? How many have closely looked at your buttstock screws? Now, one buttstock, one if it's an actual mil spec or if it's proper design, one of the screws is different. Anybody out there listening, what's the difference between one screw over the other for the buttstock for the air 15 or for In fact, the one screw that you would need for the retaining screw for the folding stock, the collapsible stock, is the same screw that needs to be on the standard AR-15A1A2. What's the difference between the screws, the two screws that normally hold the butt plate into place? Anyone? I'll give you a little moment. Can anybody think? Anybody remember? Now this is interesting because I haven't... Things get lost in the wash, so to speak. But any of you noticed that your upper butt plate screw had a hole in the middle of it? How many of you remember that? How many of you were taught, well this is a fun one, that remember that pipe cleaner that's supposed to be, you have those little pipe cleaners in your rifle cleaning kit? What were the pipe cleaners for? Does anybody remember? Now, one of the things the pipe cleaners are for is to clean out that, oh yeah, you got that little goose neck device on the top of your bolt carrier. And you've got a couple other spots, including the, well, I'll give you a big hint. You've got the channel and the firing pin channel in your bolt, which partially is cleaned with a, obviously a bigger brush or a patch. But what about that little hole in the middle? However, here's the thing. Traditionally, when you were taught to clean your M16A1 or E1, you also use that little pipe cleaner to swing that rifle around, go to that buttstock. And if you disassembled and dropped your buffer and your buffer tube, you know, you're, forgive me, buffer and buffer spraying. You look through that little hole, sometimes you wouldn't see anything. Why? Well, because you were standing out there in the field or at the range and you put your rifle down, but first, which a lot of people did, obviously. And what you got is some mud inside that little hole in the upper screw. If you had the CAR-15 on that little, that only screw that you have, which should have a hole in the middle of it. And you took your little pipe cleaner after you drop your buffer and your buffer spring. Then you turned around and you took a little pipe cleaner, went in there and you wiggle out all the dirt and crud and looked at it and put the other end in and see if it was still dirty. And then when you were done, you took a little bit of a bore cleaner. Once you got the mud out of the way and you put some bore cleaner in there and you scrub that out a little bit. Then you take another pipe cleaner if that one's dirty enough, which it probably is, and you take one end and with a little bit of PLS, you know, lubricant, you put that in there and you rub that around down that little channel of that screw. And what was the purpose behind that? Well, you might recall the M16 went to Vietnam. Vietnam was a very wet place. Rains, rains, swamps, rivers, swamps, rain, more rain and more rain and water crossings, rice paddies, all kinds of fun stuff. The purpose behind that was to break the vacuum of the water that would collect in the buffer tube and allow it to properly drain from the buffer tube if it collected there. Now I always thought that was kind of interesting because the buffer tube is what? The buffer tube is like a piston tube, like a like where a bullet going down down, you know, a shell going down, you know, a barrel and the buffer is the bullet. Okay. And it actually has a pretty snug fit. So how is it that that little if there was any water in there I mean wouldn't that kind of work like the hypodermic like it I know what's the energy available when the bolt carrier slaps on that buffer and it goes to the rear and absorbs the energy but it compresses inside that little piston that little hole was supposed to push water out. Well what's usually up there next to that buttstock? Well your shoulder. Shouldn't that have somehow hurt? Now at some point, maybe you did, who knows? I mean, but it's interesting. So first thing I thought of was like, hey, wait a minute, that means you have hydraulic energy here and you got this big piston pushing all the water available towards that little hole. And then you have an increase in pressure that way. And then if it's next to your shoulder, of course, hopefully your web gear is in the way. Maybe you were in body armor. I mean, we were back then, but that's kind of weird. But it was necessary and you might recall that for water crossings you did two things. Number one, you pull back the bolt, we kept the weapon over your head if at all possible. But if you fully submersed or if you got into the water and you ended up having to swim rather than walk, even with a rifle over your head didn't work because you're obviously trying to tread water. When you got to the other side, the idea was that you tilted the weapon at an angle Pulled the charging handle back to break the chamber and the idea was to let the moisture out of the barrel and in the process, tip the water out of the through the buffer tube. Now there's a couple different tricks that they taught everybody, but still the basic solution was the same. There were ideas about tipping it muzzle forward because it killed two birds and one stone. Everybody goes, wait a minute Mark, the water would go out of the buffer tube and into the weapon. Yeah, it would go into the receiver area and then go down through the bottom of the weapon. The magazine well, the trigger area, all of that is an evacuation. Gravity sucks. Those are evacuation points. In fact, they're also evacuation points for carbon. That was the original intent. Also, by the way, the design was built. Of course, we all know that it devocates where it eats, so the AR-15 still collects plenty of carbon on the top side of the bolt carrier. But if dirt, debris, or any kind of excess material build up inside, the idea is that the system would be semi-self-cleaning and needless to say with regard to the water threat, you were disciplined to take immediate action to ensure that you didn't have any hydraulic issues if you tried to use the weapon coming out of the water. And that would be very detrimental. The water would do all kinds of mean things. It's amazing what it can do down on a little 22 caliber barrel with a high powered rifle round. Okay. So just a heads up. Yeah, you might be curious. You know, I never did look at my AR-15. Could be an Anderson, could be a Palmetto, could be any number of different, you know, to-do names. But take a look at the buttstock. Is there a little hole? in the center of your buttstock screw where your butt were attaches to your buffer tube. I'm just curious. It'd be one of those things where, hey, wait a minute. I don't have one. Yeah, because you see, it kind of things kind of get lost in the mix and people forget or figure out, nobody will notice. To a degree, it's kind of weird. It's one of those little features that came out of the war, actually very early on in the war, something they realized they needed. And then after we left the war, it was an automatic production idea. But then who knows? Maybe everybody just kind of thought, well, I could save money by not having to drill that hole. Yeah, just likely is not. Just curious. Check your weapon. See what you got. Check all your air 15s. If you've got air 15 lowers and you got whatever buttstock on them. Kind of curious to see what the end result was and kind of neat too. Anyway, we are Oh, go ahead. Jump in there. Yeah, I just checked mine. Both of them are open. They're clean. Okay, very good. My car 15 and the 20 inch AR. Yeah. Very good. Well, here's the other one. I hadn't thought about it. Anybody check the AR 10s that you got out there? I mean, it would be as, you know, a useful design idea for the air, or 10, is it would be the air 15. And I've never really looked. It's one of those things you just assume, well, it's part of the production concept, so why would it not be there? But it's weird how things get lost in the shuffle. Somebody decides, well, you know, why are we doing that? Well, I don't know. It's just everybody did it. Well, I'll tell you what, it's really not critical, is it? Well, no, we're not going to be in a rice paddy today. However, we're in Michigan, Tex-Mex, and we have water everywhere. So, just a heads up, you know, the farther north you go, or the closer you are to the ocean, the more likely that feature might be kind of handy. And it's interesting because, you know, the, with the, it's basically designed to break the vacuum so that the water will pour or move through, because the water, if it's If it does not have a way to displace the oxygen and the moisture at the same time, it has to have, you know, tug and, you know, it has to have flow. It's that simple. Then it'll just sit there and you can shake and bake all you want. You're still not going to get most of it out of there. So again, it's a heads up item. And if you're not familiar, go to the back of your weapon. Look at your buttstock. And if you notice the one below, if you have the standard A1 or A2 stocks, The upper screw will have a literally a hole right in the middle of it about the size of a penciled and It's there for a reason now if you haven't cleaned it clean it See text like said whoa look clear to me and that's the whole idea Remember you can drop your drop your bowl or forgive me Open up your your receiver from your upper from your lower pop both the pins Depress the pin, pop the buffer in the spring, and you should be able to look right up and see the light. Hold it right up to the light. Look down the buffer tube. And if you don't see light, A, the screw may not have the hole, or B, you've probably impacted it. And impacted is not good. So it is another thing too. It will build up oxidation. You may even want to go find the proper screwdriver head. back off that screw and clean it out front to back. And also, while you're at it, lubricate the thing, including the threads, and put it back together. You're a good idea. Obviously, it's there because of one thing, moisture. So that's probably going to also mean rust oxidation. Okay, so just a heads up on that one. Anyway, ideas, not just complaining about the problems and little things in life that, well, now you got something to do this evening while you're sitting there in front of the TV. You can go through the air at 15s and go, you're right, that one's dirty. Oh, that one's okay. Oh, that one looks good, but I still clean them all. Hey, wait a minute. If you took the thing down and you're going over them, you still run the pipe cleaner through there and lubricate them while you're thinking about it. Right, guys? Wouldn't hurt. Now you don't have to, we're not talking soaking here. We're talking a light coat of whatever lubricant you want to use. And again, that's if you're using fluid, if you're using graphite, whatever, different story. But I still use just a hair on that little white pipe cleaner. Slide it through there, pull it back, you're done. That'll just ensure that you've got a covering over the crystalline structure of the metal. Such a small surface, easy for it to rust up and plug up. Just a heads up on that one. So anyway, little ideas, big problems down the road. Next, and again, we were talking about NBC during the tour block nuclear biological and chemical defense. And again, it's not a big deal for you guys to acquire the technology, but the big thing is also have it put up in a kit. There's a number of different bags that are out there that were intended for NBC, nuclear, biological, chemical, D-con kits and chem suits. The American ones are, some of them are Woodland. They're certainly OD Green. It's a mix as far as most of the other bags are, they're basically designating one of the utility bags for that purpose with the newer MOLLE gear, but there are a few MOLLE items that were built that overlapped with the Alice gear that were same purpose pouches. Okay. One of the things to remember is again your chem suit if you're using a US chem suit it's pretty stinking bulky make no mistake about that we understand that. Even if it's the Czechoslovakian it still takes up a little bit of bulk and because it is almost a visequeen vinyl material it's thick and it's heavy. So you want a bag that's going to hold up and you also are going to want to make sure that you secure it so it's not flopping around and constantly in your way. Now you don't want to drop it with all the rest of your gear necessarily. So this is where the balance comes in. Some people hook the some units, hook the equipment right up to their backpack and then drop it with their kit and then dismount it and attach it to their tactical gear. as needed. Other units follow the traditional US MOP configuration for transport. There's almost like a little bivvy bag slash a sleeping bag utility pouch that used to be cheap, really cheap. So much so that we actually started using them as a replacement for what was becoming hard to find regular fanny packs years ago. They will hold more. They're designed to be a compression bag. Use them for the lighter weight or the field expedient sleeping bags. But the same bag was also used for transporting the chem suits. So it's a personal flavor choice thing. And it's a matter of one, who knows which generation or direction it went. If it was sleeping bags and then, oh, it works for the chem suits. Or if it was chem suits and, oh, by the way, it makes a good compression bag. Either way, it was still listed half the time as a compression bag in the surplus. That will work for most of what we're talking about carrying and depending on your priorities and what your LBE load bearing equipment is set up to accommodate, you can actually center that unit in place of say the M 1956 3-day pack slash fanny pack slash butt pack, depending on what era you were and what title you use, how do you always have to qualify that. But typically they will be in woodland and they are easily able to accommodate the chem suits. You have to roll them up tighter. Somebody's probably thinking, well, Mark, you told us to get the Mark fours or Mark, you know, Mark three or Mark four British chem suits. Yes, they are still fairly large. And I will remind you, if you haven't experienced this, the British chem suits, if they're in their original packaging, if you take them out, they won't go back in. Does everybody understand that they are compressed and then vacuum packed inside that pouch? So you want to leave them that way if they're marked appropriately for size and you've already tried one on or using it I have a an anorak mark 3 anorak, which is the mark 3 chem suit system for the Brits. It's a great clothing item Really is actually I've worn it to the death I think it's on its last legs right now, but I probably spray with some camo paint use for something else Maybe ghillie suited or something who knows give it to a younger kid. That's smaller than me But fact is that the British mark 3 is and mark 4 is Major surplus comm major surplus comm major surplus comm gun parts corp comm gun parts corp comm gun parts corp comm Sportsman's guide comm Sportsman's guide comm all of those have the British chem suits in service at one point or another. And while the well won't last forever, who knows, maybe they've shipped a bunch of this stuff over to Ukraine already. But so far the Brits still have this as a released surplus item. So for as long as you can get them, they are a serviceable utility item. Problem is really big sizes are hard to find now. It's on the other end of the surplus inventory. but they are out there. So again, catch this, catch Ken, the bivvy little utility bag that we're talking about would fit those and your gloves, all of your other equipment, the garbage bags we were talking about using the large, large heavy gauge garbage bags as auxiliary chem protection and nuclear protection. Even having a space there with a bag like that. for packing a spare filter with the Mark III or Mark IV suits. You shouldn't be able to make it all work and get in there, so you've got everything in one package, easy to drop or easy to pick up, depending on what you're doing. Now, this is another thing, and this is where it's tough. World War II, World War I was dark side of the moon, chemical and at the very end, I guarantee biological was used, they just try to lie about it, okay? World War II, there was such a fear in the guys who had fought in World War I. Some of them had been gassed more than once. Everybody had a gentleman's agreement that, well, we would probably not use, you know, chemical warfare. Of course, everybody was terrified of it. But everybody was prepared for it because they had just had a war where chemical deployment was a daily routine. So don't say it can't happen. It already happened and was part of a war for two thirds of the of the campaigns of World War One. Later on, even a world between wars, the stinking kosher mafia, Lenin and Trotsky ordered chemical weapons, mustard gas used against the population. And they did. So don't say it can't happen. But what happened in World War Two is eventually as the threat lessened. In other words, well, they haven't gassed us yet, so we won't worry too much about it. Sometimes people would dump their gas masks. The biggest problem is there are a few accidents that took place and they still try to downplay them, or they try to misdirect the original information on them, if you're familiar with them. Well, guess what? The Americans, it was us. had a couple of booby prize events where we had a whole bunch of. Foshing gas or other gas other agents slash gases and they all went up. Got civilians got military people, naval personnel killed everybody on one ship. with exception, I guess maybe one or two or three people. But because they didn't know and it was so quote unquote secret because they were actually deploying the chemical weapons but claiming that they weren't. That guess what? They toasted a bunch of people and because they weren't treated for they didn't know what they were damaged by. They thought it was one thing turned out to be something totally different. So the casualties were much higher than it should have been because they lied. Okay. However, the average soldier in many cases just you know, you see it even in some movies. I get rid of that gas mask. You won't need it. Well, okay. This is where the balance comes here. The interesting situation. What do you think it's like when you're the one with the gas mask and other people have decided that they didn't think they needed it. But now all of a sudden they realize they do. Probably not a pleasant situation. Okay. But don't worry, three to five minutes down the road, as long as you can stay away from everybody, you won't have to worry about much competition because the chemical casualties will mount very quickly. And there's nothing you can really do for those people. If they chose to not utilize the defense technology available and they did not maintain it. then you're not obligated to try and figure out how to make one mask work for five people. It just ain't gonna happen anyway. Okay, just not gonna work. So take that into consideration here with people who poo-poo the idea of NBC, nuclear, biological and chemical defense. Well, I don't need it all the time or it's inconvenient. Well, yeah, it is in the way. That's why I said you have to tailor the technology. This is where we can pick and choose. from the inventory and make something a little more tolerable while still providing all the protection that we need in the event we have to use the technology. There's the balance that therein lies the rub as Shakespeare said. Okay. Another thing about this, as I just said, you can't share for as long as I've operated, I always carry, and I know I'm rubbing this in, but it's an idea because we go to Sportsman's Guide. You go to budk.com, you go to colmans.com, I think you can go to Major Surplus, the Russian possum mask. They can be in gray or they can be in black. If they're in gray, they do not have as much IR protection, the rubber does not, the plastic, the polymer they use. So you want to keep them out of the light, but they are a very serviceable mask. But one of the other advantages, They're very small when they're packed away. So you can actually afford to carry a complete second mask on board while Marky carried a lot of extra junk. No, it's not extra junk. It's just that again, I'm going in heavy because I can drop the backpack. But if I use the backpack and everybody's backpack is a true cargo load, then not only can we deploy, but we can elongate our deployment wire. We can extend our ability to deploy because we have Most of the basic single items that we need for operations Now like I said before you could share a gas mask between two people But it's gonna be pretty stinking embarrassing when somebody stumbles And or somebody gets a hair up their butt and figures that well, I need it. You don't So instead if everybody has a gas mask, everybody's happy. So that spare mask is for that guy and I've had this happen We're a person where you're getting hit with gas and the person lost their gas mask. If you're thinking ahead, you already know where it's deployed. What you do is quickly rip it out, shove it in the guy's hands, put it on, get in motion. You can't do it for them unless they're really incapacitated. You can't let the person deal with donning the mask themselves. They're supposed to have that responsibility and they'd better have perfected that expertise. In other words, they're kind of stupid. So again, that's one of the reasons you carry a spare, but also your mask can be damaged. Guys, I lay on my side. My mask is on my left side. I got my ass out of the line of the bullets or whatever is coming at us, but I felt a tug on my gear and I look and there's a kind of a cavity chunk out of my gas mask that's ready to go. Well, I'm not going to necessarily chuck it away. I might be able to use something off it. We'll figure that out. But that's what I have the other mask for. Just in case. I highly respect nuclear, biological and chemical because when push comes to shove, we get into a real conflict like the one you're seeing in the Ukraine where they really, really, really want to get a bunch of us killed. Not only are they going to use nuclear, but it's going to be mushrooms and marsh gas. Okay, it's gonna be mushroom clouds in one direction, marsh gas coming at you from the other. And they guaranteed, not maybe, not kind of, not sort of. And here's the interesting thing. Ukraine, let's say they start the war there. It's already the dark side of the moon. Well, it's Mars in the colonial phase. Little power, everybody's cold, and there's no place to go. Now the Russians start whatever they're gonna start take all the technology out of the picture if you're fighting in that area because it'll be gone This would be true of any war zone you're going to operate in and the sooner that you expect to operate independently with whatever with with you carrying the wherewithal to get the tasks done Better off you'll be everybody understand what we're talking about. It's pretty straightforward Simple, actually. So we had a lot of work to do. And again, not only eyes cross all the T's, remember it's Weapons Wednesday, your mind is your first best weapon. But beyond that, while the ethereal is especially critical, the physical world is where we fight. And the physical world will always be here in front of us. Period. That's all there is to it. Well, hopefully for all of you. Some people like to live in some interesting delusions, but one way or another, whatever it is that we perceive it to be, we're here. So we need to deal with the threat. And everyone fights, everyone. Everybody needs to be trained to fight. Everybody needs to know how to fight and understand the threat. So when we employ the technology and we deploy our personnel, we end up being the masters of the battlefield. That's what's critical here. And again, organize, arm, equip, and train as militia. Establish a 5-10 program in your area of operation. Logistics. If you understand logistics, you win the war. So let's celebrate. the way though and we're chasing over